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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag was detected near Lorengau in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.2728S, 146.36WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 170 km SW of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea (106 miles). The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:46:04 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/09/24 / 2024-09-11 16:46:04 / September 11, 2024 @ 4:46 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 146.36° East, -3.2728° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nd4f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nd4f. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 170 km SW of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.36° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2728° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170 km SW of Lorengau, 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 2024-09-11 16:46:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-11 17:04:11 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 4.317 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 611 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us7000nd4f Id of event.
Event Code 7000nd4f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nd4f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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