Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70003jvq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003jvq. The temblor was picked up at 06:13:00 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.18 km (36 miles). Exact location, longitude 149.3629° East, latitude -6.0433° South, depth = 58.18 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/19 / 2019-05-11 20:13:00 / May 11, 2019 @ 8:13 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe. Epicenter of the event was 102 km (64 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km NW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

Kandrian Kimbe Papua New Guinea

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.3629° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.0433° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km NW 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	2019-05-11 20:13:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-11 20:27:39	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	3.341	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us70003jvq	Id of event.
Event Code	70003jvq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003jvq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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