Strong earthquake: M6.6 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.5 East, latitude -6.7 South, depth = 55 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 01/09/24 / 2024-09-01 20:13:36 / September 1, 2024 @ 8:13 pm UTC/GMT. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:13:36 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pt24245000, at00sj5hio. Unique identifier: at00sj5hio.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 42 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

Arawa Panguna Papua New Guinea

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.5° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.7° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km S of Panguna, 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	2024-09-01 20:13:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-01 20:24:31	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	1	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	670	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	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	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43.199996544	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00sj5hio	Id of event.
Event Code	00sj5hio	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt24245000,at00sj5hio,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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