Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 18:49:37 / August 22, 2018 @ 6:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.16 km (27 miles). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:49:37 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000gfkm. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gfkm. Exact location, longitude 155.7653° East, latitude -6.9977° South, depth = 44.16 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.7653° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.9977° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81km SSE of Panguna, 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	2018-08-22 18:49:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-22 19:09:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	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	4.87	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	518	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	4.541	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us1000gfkm	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gfkm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gfkm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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