Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 155.7314 East, latitude -7.0917 South, depth = 69.86 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69.86 km (43 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 22:45:26 / November 16, 2020 @ 10:45 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:45:26 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000cfwd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cfwd.

Event epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 89 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.7314° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.0917° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 km SSE of Panguna, 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	2020-11-16 22:45:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-16 23:07:32	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	4.021	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	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	449	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	4.572	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us7000cfwd	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cfwd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cfwd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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