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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near New Britain region, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on June 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.0336S, 149.7229WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported New Britain region, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Britain region, Papua New Guinea on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.66 km (32 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/19 / 2019-06-21 06:38:30 / June 21, 2019 @ 6:38 am. Unique identifier: us60004438. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004438. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:38:30 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 51.66 km, 149.7229° East, -6.0336° South.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: New Britain region, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.7229° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0336° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place New Britain region, 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 2019-06-21 06:38:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-21 06:58:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0 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 3.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us60004438 Id of event.
Event Code 60004438 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004438, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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