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Major earthquake: M7.1 quake has struck near Bulolo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.975S, 146.401WA major earthquake magnitude 7.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Bulolo in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/05/19 / 2019-05-06 21:19:37 / May 6, 2019 @ 9:19 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19126050, at00pr3pwp. Unique identifier: at00pr3pwp. Exact location of event, depth 137 km, 146.401° East, -6.975° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bulolo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:19:37 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 137 km (85 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kerema, Kainantu, Lae (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Wau (c. 14 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop), 130 km (80 miles) from Kerema (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. There are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km NW of Bulolo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.401° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.975° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NW of Bulolo, 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 2019-05-06 21:19:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-06 21:26:09 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 776 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.525164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93.599992512001 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pr3pwp Id of event.
Event Code 00pr3pwp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19126050,at00pr3pwp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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