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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Alotau in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -9.7593S, 149.9186WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Alotau in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Alotau in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jm3c. Id of event: us2000jm3c. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.9186 East, latitude -9.7593 South, depth = 5.06 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.06 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:40:33 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 17:40:33 / February 23, 2019 @ 5:40 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alotau (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Alotau (c. 10 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km NW of Alotau, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.9186° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.7593° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km NW of Alotau, 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 2019-02-23 17:40:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-23 17:56:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 416 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 5.963 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jm3c Id of event.
Event Code 2000jm3c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jm3c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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