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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on September 19, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.2748S, 156.0665WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 123 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (76 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 17:08:41 / September 19, 2024 @ 5:08 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.15 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.0665 East, latitude -7.2748 South, depth = 66.15 km. Unique identifier: us6000nt3e. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nt3e. The temblor was detected at 17:08:41 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 123 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.0665° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2748° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 km SSE 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 2024-09-19 17:08:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-19 17:30:17 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.401 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 38 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 us6000nt3e Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt3e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt3e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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