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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.2349S, 146.188WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 146.188° East, -5.2349° South. Unique identifier: us1000jaaq. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jaaq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 10:06:01 / March 4, 2019 @ 10:06 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Madang in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:06:01 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each 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: 43 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.188° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2349° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km E of Madang, 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 2019-03-04 10:06:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-04 10:27:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.956 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 536 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 3.381 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us1000jaaq Id of event.
Event Code 1000jaaq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jaaq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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