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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 95 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0649S, 154.6609WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us600057vb. Unique identifier: us600057vb. Exact location, longitude 154.6609° East, latitude -6.0649° South, depth = 72.42 km. Global time and date of event 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 09:24:55 / August 21, 2019 @ 9:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:24:55 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.42 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

Each 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. 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 thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 95 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.6609° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0649° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km WNW 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 2019-08-21 09:24:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-21 09:40:37 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 3.989 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 449 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 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us600057vb Id of event.
Event Code 600057vb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600057vb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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