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Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Arawa in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on July 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.6553S, 155.2449WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 175 km N of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (109 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 17:08:38 / July 11, 2019 @ 5:08 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 497.11 km (309 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:08:38 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70004icj. Unique identifier: us70004icj. Exact location of event, longitude 155.2449 East, latitude -4.6553 South, depth = 497.11 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Arawa in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 175 km N of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.2449° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.6553° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 497.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175km N of Arawa, 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 2019-07-11 17:08:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 17:25:25 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 554 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 3.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us70004icj Id of event.
Event Code 70004icj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004icj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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