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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.5371S, 155.0233WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:10:32 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005dfx. Id of event: us70005dfx. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 371.68 km (231 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 155.0233 East, latitude -6.5371 South, depth = 371.68 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/19 / 2019-09-08 18:10:32 / September 8, 2019 @ 6:10 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

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. 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-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5371° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 371.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km WSW 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 2019-09-08 18:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-08 20:12:26 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 400 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 3.679 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us70005dfx Id of event.
Event Code 70005dfx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005dfx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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