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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on August 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.1313S, 149.5409WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 157 km ENE of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea (98 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 149.5409 East, latitude -8.1313 South, depth = 51.87 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.87 km (32 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:29:09 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/08/15 / 2015-08-20 13:29:09 / August 20, 2015 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us100033nw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100033nw.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 157 km ENE of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.5409° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1313° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km ENE of Popondetta, 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 2015-08-20 13:29:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 13:55:34 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 3.33 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 465 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 6.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us100033nw Id of event.
Event Code 100033nw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033nw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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