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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Madang in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on November 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.7948S, 145.1427WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 00:17:23 / November 26, 2015 @ 12:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 195.67 km, 145.1427° East, -4.7948° South. The temblor was picked up at 10:17:23 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 195.67 km (122 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Madang in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100041dh. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041dh.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang. Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 86 km WNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.1427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.7948° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 195.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km WNW of Madang, 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 2015-11-26 00:17:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 00:35:30 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 400 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 3.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us100041dh Id of event.
Event Code 100041dh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041dh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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