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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 68 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.937S, 155.4395WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000np8b. Id of event: us7000np8b. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.582 km (31 miles). Global time and date of event 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 17:46:28 / October 31, 2024 @ 5:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:46:28 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 155.4395° East, -6.937° South, depth 50.582 km.

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.4395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.937° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.582 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 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 2024-10-31 17:46:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 18:05:18 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 432 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 4.251 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us7000np8b Id of event.
Event Code 7000np8b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np8b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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