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


Earthquake location -6.3443S, 146.2942WA 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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More information

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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