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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Taron in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.6521S, 152.9065WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.84 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 20:14:20 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/19 / 2019-05-27 10:14:20 / May 27, 2019 @ 10:14 am. Id of earthquake: us60003sp3. Event ids that are associated: us60003sp3. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.9065 East, latitude -4.6521 South, depth = 55.84 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 24 km SW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.9065° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.6521° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SW of Taron, 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 2019-05-27 10:14:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-27 10:27:06 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 432 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 0.87 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us60003sp3 Id of event.
Event Code 60003sp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003sp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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