Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Popondetta in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.37 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 10:49:36 / January 3, 2017 @ 10:49 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:49:36 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007pfs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pfs. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.0309 East, latitude -8.2569 South, depth = 57.37 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokoda, Popondetta. Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from Popondetta (c. 28 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kokoda (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eight 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 60 km NNW of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	148.0309° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.2569° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km NNW 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	2017-01-03 10:49:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-03 11:02:54	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		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	385	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	1.429	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us10007pfs	Id of event.
Event Code	10007pfs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007pfs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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