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


Earthquake location -4.1113S, 143.0441WA 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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More information

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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