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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Lae in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on August 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.0605S, 146.8247WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:58:53 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us600053jp. Event ids that are associated: us600053jp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 21:58:53 / August 10, 2019 @ 9:58 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 146.8247 East, latitude -6.0605 South, depth = 107.26 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 107.26 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Lae in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

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

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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. 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: 75 km NNW of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.8247° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0605° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNW of Lae, 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 2019-08-10 21:58:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-10 22:17:33 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 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 3.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us600053jp Id of event.
Event Code 600053jp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600053jp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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