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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 84 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on September 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.8864S, 148.1284WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 84 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (52 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:54:28 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70005las. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005las. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.1284 East, latitude -5.8864 South, depth = 102.68 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 19:54:28 / September 25, 2019 @ 7:54 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 102.68 km (64 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 84 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.1284° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8864° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km NNE of Finschhafen, 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 2019-09-25 19:54:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 20:10:39 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 432 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 3.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us70005las Id of event.
Event Code 70005las An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005las, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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