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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2355S, 154.8063WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:19:55 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.8063 East, latitude -6.2355 South, depth = 68.21 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003x66. Unique identifier: us70003x66. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.21 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/06/19 / 2019-06-08 10:19:55 / June 8, 2019 @ 10:19 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-nine 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.8063° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2355° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2019-06-08 10:19:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-08 10:39:57 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 3.324 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 44 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 us70003x66 Id of event.
Event Code 70003x66 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003x66, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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