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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 69 km S of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.2009S, 150.7611WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Kavieng in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/12/19 / 2019-12-03 22:23:13 / December 3, 2019 @ 10:23 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kavieng in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60006lsm. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006lsm. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:23:13 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 150.7611° East, latitude -3.2009° South, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Kavieng (c. 14 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kavieng (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 69 km S of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.7611° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2009° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km S of Kavieng, 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 2019-12-03 22:23:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-03 22:42:54 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 5.177 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 1.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 us60006lsm Id of event.
Event Code 60006lsm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006lsm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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