Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near New Britain region, Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Britain region, Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/21 / 2021-03-15 11:41:33 / March 15, 2021 @ 11:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.3 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 152.684° East, latitude -4.4879° South, depth = 20.3 km. Id of earthquake: us7000djh0. Event ids that are associated: us7000djh0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:41:33 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: New Britain region, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.684° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.4879° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	New Britain region, 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	2021-03-15 11:41:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-15 12:01:11	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	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	8.726	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us7000djh0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000djh0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000djh0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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