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

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Aitape in Papua New Guinea. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009mpw. Id of event: us70009mpw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 142.8627° East, -2.9511° South. Global time and date of event 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 19:18:49 / May 21, 2020 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:18:49 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Aitape in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Aitape (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aitape.

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 one and in the last 365 days three 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: 60 km ENE of Aitape, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.8627° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.9511° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km ENE of Aitape, 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	2020-05-21 19:18:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-21 19:37:54	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		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	4.588	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us70009mpw	Id of event.
Event Code	70009mpw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009mpw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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