Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Lae in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter was at a depth of 60.018 km (37 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:30:03 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/05/24 / 2024-05-19 18:30:03 / May 19, 2024 @ 6:30 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mzps. Unique identifier: us6000mzps. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.3048 East, latitude -6.2961 South, depth = 60.018 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km NE of Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.3048° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2961° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.018 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km NE of Lae, 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	2024-05-19 18:30:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-19 18:46:43	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	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.092	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us6000mzps	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mzps	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mzps,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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