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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Taron in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on November 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.6187S, 153.2105WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, 153.2105° East, -4.6187° South, depth 57.77 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:11:12 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/11/17 / 2017-11-27 07:11:12 / November 27, 2017 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.77 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000burc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000burc.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 109 km (68 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.2105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.6187° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SE 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 2017-11-27 07:11:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-27 07:25:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 554 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 1.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000burc Id of event.
Event Code 2000burc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000burc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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