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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 67 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.5234S, 151.8394WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 03:12:09 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 151.8394° East, latitude -3.5234° South, depth = 366.37 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 17:12:09 / June 21, 2016 @ 5:12 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065sc. Id of event: us200065sc. The epicenter was at a depth of 366.37 km (228 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 67 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.8394° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.5234° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 366.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km WNW of Namatanai, 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 2016-06-21 17:12:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-21 17:37:03 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 2.88 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 572 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 0.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 17 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200065sc Id of event.
Event Code 200065sc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065sc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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