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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 34 km ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.116S, 149.841WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, depth 8.68 km, 149.841° East, -6.116° South. Id of earthquake: us2000iv5f. Event ids that are associated: us2000iv5f. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:37:45 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/12/18 / 2018-12-19 21:37:45 / December 19, 2018 @ 9:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.68 km (5 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby 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 six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.116° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ENE of Kandrian, 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 2018-12-19 21:37:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-19 21:59:29 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 6.486 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 3.001 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us2000iv5f Id of event.
Event Code 2000iv5f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iv5f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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