Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Ambunti in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ambunti in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mqdv. Id of event: us7000mqdv. The epicenter was at a depth of 61.423 km (38 miles). Global time and date of event 05/06/24 / 2024-06-05 02:15:59 / June 5, 2024 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0441 East, latitude -4.1113 South, depth = 61.423 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:15:59 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Wewak (c. 18 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wewak.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km ENE of Ambunti, 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	143.0441° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.1113° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	61.423 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km ENE of Ambunti, 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	2024-06-05 02:15:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-05 02:30:52	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.824	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us7000mqdv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mqdv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mqdv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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