Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 151.5088° East, -3.8229° South, depth 10 km. Event id: us6000mywx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mywx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 06:31:36 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/24 / 2024-05-16 06:31:36 / May 16, 2024 @ 6:31 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 102 km (64 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

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 two 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 83 km WNW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.5088° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.8229° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83 km WNW of Rabaul, 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	2024-05-16 06:31:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-16 08:36:01	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	4.181	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 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	us6000mywx	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mywx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mywx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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