Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Kainantu in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Kainantu in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:49:58 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/06/24 / 2024-06-17 20:49:58 / June 17, 2024 @ 8:49 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.731 km (64 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 146.2942 East, latitude -6.3443 South, depth = 103.731 km. Id of earthquake: us7000mt2v. Event ids that are associated: us7000mt2v.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Goroka, Bulolo, Lae. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km E of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	146.2942° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.3443° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	103.731 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km E of Kainantu, 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	2024-06-17 20:49:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-17 21:13:33	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	416	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	108	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.159	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	us7000mt2v	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mt2v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mt2v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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