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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on September 19, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.5393S, 147.4772WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 119 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (74 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 08:41:00 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 185.308 km (115 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 08:41:00 / September 19, 2024 @ 8:41 am. Id of earthquake: us6000nt0l. Event ids that are associated: us6000nt0l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 147.4772 East, latitude -5.5393 South, depth = 185.308 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 119 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.4772° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5393° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 185.308 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119 km NNW 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 2024-09-19 08:41:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-19 08:55:33 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 482 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 3.474 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 68 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 us6000nt0l Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt0l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt0l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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