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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on April 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.522S, 148.6864WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 90 km E of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (56 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.45 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us700035bx. Event ids that are associated: us700035bx. Exact location, longitude 148.6864° East, latitude -6.522° South, depth = 38.45 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/04/19 / 2019-04-13 08:44:03 / April 13, 2019 @ 8:44 am. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:44:03 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 90 km E of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.6864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.522° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km E of Finschhafen, 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 2019-04-13 08:44:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-13 09:01:13 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 3.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us700035bx Id of event.
Event Code 700035bx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700035bx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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