Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us7000n8by. Event ids that are associated: us7000n8by. 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: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 21:09:11 / August 20, 2024 @ 9:09 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:09:11 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 147.4252° East, latitude -6.6061° South, depth = 83.218 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 83.218 km (52 miles).

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 46 km W of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.4252° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.6061° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.218 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km W of Finschhafen, 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	2024-08-20 21:09:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-20 21:24:26	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	385	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us7000n8by	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8by	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8by,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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