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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Tari in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.6S, 142.2086WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tari in Papua New Guinea on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000c84i. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000c84i. Exact location of event, longitude 142.2086 East, latitude -5.6 South, depth = 31.47 km. The temblor was reported at 18:01:44 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/10/20 / 2020-10-30 18:01:44 / October 30, 2020 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.47 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km WNW of Tari, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2086° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km WNW of Tari, 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 2020-10-30 18:01:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-30 18:19:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0 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 385 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 6.195 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us7000c84i Id of event.
Event Code 7000c84i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c84i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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