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


Earthquake location -5.2784S, 153.0494WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 89 km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea (55 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:21:16 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.82 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/06/15 / 2015-06-27 16:21:16 / June 27, 2015 @ 4:21 pm. Exact location, longitude 153.0494° East, latitude -5.2784° South, depth = 46.82 km. Unique identifier: us10002m3p. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002m3p.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.0494° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2784° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km S of Taron, 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 2015-06-27 16:21:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-27 16:34:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us10002m3p Id of event.
Event Code 10002m3p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002m3p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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