Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 154.9649 East, latitude -6.4045 South, depth = 90.89 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 12:36:55 / September 16, 2017 @ 12:36 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:36:55 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ap2h. Unique identifier: us2000ap2h. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 90.89 km (56 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa. Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 58 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

Arawa Panguna Papua New Guinea

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	154.9649° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.4045° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	90.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km W of Panguna, 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	2017-09-16 12:36:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-16 12:55:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	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	400	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	3.551	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us2000ap2h	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ap2h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ap2h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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