Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:30:59 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 150.8153° East, latitude -5.3742° South, depth = 130.7 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 07:30:59 / March 29, 2018 @ 7:30 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.7 km (81 miles). Event id: us1000damk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000damk.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Kimbe Papua New Guinea

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.8153° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.3742° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77km ENE 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	2018-03-29 07:30:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-29 07:49:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	385	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.774	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000damk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000damk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000damk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information