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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2707S, 155.0036WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 02/04/19 / 2019-04-02 11:31:55 / April 2, 2019 @ 11:31 am UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:31:55 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.82 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k93r. Id of event: us2000k93r. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.0036 East, latitude -6.2707 South, depth = 60.82 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa.

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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 53 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0036° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2707° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W of Panguna, 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 2019-04-02 11:31:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-02 11:50:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 385 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 3.502 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000k93r Id of event.
Event Code 2000k93r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k93r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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