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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag was detected near Arawa in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on December 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.6598S, 154.4882WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 131 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea (81 miles). The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:24:36 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.4882 East, latitude -5.6598 South, depth = 157.05 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 157.05 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007ztn. Unique identifier: us20007ztn. Global time and date of event 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 16:24:36 / December 10, 2016 @ 4:24 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Arawa in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 131 km WNW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.4882° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6598° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km WNW of Arawa, 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 2016-12-10 16:24:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 16:46:43 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 4.06 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 2.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20007ztn Id of event.
Event Code 20007ztn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007ztn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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