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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Alotau in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on September 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.8653S, 150.1953WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Alotau in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 150.1953 East, latitude -9.8653 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:10:18 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Alotau in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70005hw4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005hw4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/19 / 2019-09-18 16:10:18 / September 18, 2019 @ 4:10 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alotau (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Alotau (c. 10 000 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km NNW of Alotau, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.1953° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.8653° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km NNW of Alotau, 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 2019-09-18 16:10:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-18 21:12:01 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 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 3.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us70005hw4 Id of event.
Event Code 70005hw4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005hw4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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