Major earthquake 7 mag, 151 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea

A major earthquake with magnitude 7 (ml/mb) was reported 151 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (94 miles) on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:51:04 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/18 / 2018-03-26 09:51:04 / March 26, 2018 @ 9:51 am. Unique identifier: at00p66zd3. Ids that are associated to the event: pt18085000, at00p66zd3. Exact location of earthquake, 151.5° East, -5.7° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 151 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.5° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.7° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	151km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-26 09:51:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 10:04:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	REVIEWED	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	1	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	754	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	85	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28.799997696	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00p66zd3	Id of event.
Event Code	00p66zd3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt18085000,at00p66zd3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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