Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008sjn. Id of event: us10008sjn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/17 / 2017-05-15 13:22:38 / May 15, 2017 @ 1:22 pm. 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 of earthquake, longitude 152.5173 East, latitude -4.0109 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:22:38 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 fourty-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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km SSE of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.5173° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.0109° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km SSE 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	2017-05-15 13:22:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-15 13:47:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.11	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	519	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	5.502	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us10008sjn	Id of event.
Event Code	10008sjn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008sjn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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