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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 30 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.7155S, 153.1534WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 153.1534 East, latitude -4.7155 South, depth = 61.04 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.04 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 05:26:57 / October 28, 2016 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100072jv. Unique identifier: us100072jv. The temblor was picked up at 15:26:57 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 30 km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.1534° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.7155° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSE 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 2016-10-28 05:26:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-28 05:50:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.21 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 500 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 1.115 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us100072jv Id of event.
Event Code 100072jv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072jv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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