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Earthquake 6.8 mb, 96 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -7.1S, 155.1WAn earthquake with magnitude 6.8 mg has occurred in 96 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. Time of event: Friday 22nd August @ 12:50 am. Location of event: 155.1S, -7.1W, depth=49 km. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about quake recorded in: 96 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. Did you feel it? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country.


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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.1° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km SSW 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 2014-04-11 08:16:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-04-11 08:28:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 711 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 ptat A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 48 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 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43.2 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 at00n3uxo1 Id of event.
Event Code 00n3uxo1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS pt14101002at00n3uxo1 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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