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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.0804S, 148.837WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 80 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea (50 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/19 / 2019-03-15 12:08:39 / March 15, 2019 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:08:39 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.837 East, latitude -6.0804 South, depth = 49.52 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jgdp. Unique identifier: us1000jgdp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.52 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 80 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0804° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km W 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 2019-03-15 12:08:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-15 12:24:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 400 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 3.808 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000jgdp Id of event.
Event Code 1000jgdp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jgdp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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