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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2956S, 151.0612WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 130 km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (81 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/10/18 / 2018-10-12 02:52:07 / October 12, 2018 @ 2:52 am. Unique identifier: us1000hax9. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hax9. The temblor was picked up at 12:52:07 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.0612 East, latitude -6.2956 South, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 130 km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.0612° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2956° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km SE 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 2018-10-12 02:52:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-12 03:13:35 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 4.28 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 500 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 2.361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us1000hax9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hax9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hax9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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