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


Earthquake location -3.9421S, 152.9058WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 14:04:58 / August 13, 2015 @ 2:04 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137.36 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:04:58 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100031xu. Unique identifier: us100031xu. Exact location, longitude 152.9058° East, latitude -3.9421° South, depth = 137.36 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km NNW of Taron, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.9058° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.9421° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km NNW 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 2015-08-13 14:04:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 14:29:12 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 3.82 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.78 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 44 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 us100031xu Id of event.
Event Code 100031xu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031xu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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