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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 91 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on August 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.9107S, 147.1592WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. Event id: us1000ggt5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ggt5. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.13 km (48 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:29:02 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Lae in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/08/18 / 2018-08-24 16:29:02 / August 24, 2018 @ 4:29 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 147.1592 East, latitude -5.9107 South, depth = 77.13 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 91 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.1592° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9107° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km NNE of Lae, 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 2018-08-24 16:29:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 18:24:26 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 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 3.471 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us1000ggt5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ggt5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ggt5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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