Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 150.2694° East, latitude -5.5932° South, depth = 120.62 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000enxj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000enxj. The temblor was picked up at 16:20:49 / 4:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/06/18 / 2018-06-12 06:20:49 / June 12, 2018 @ 6:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.62 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.2694° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.5932° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	120.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km ESE 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	2018-06-12 06:20:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-12 06:37:52	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	432	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	2.345	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us1000enxj	Id of event.
Event Code	1000enxj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000enxj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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