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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Porgera in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0975S, 142.5103WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000daw7. Id of event: us2000daw7. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:59:02 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/03/18 / 2018-03-02 07:59:02 / March 2, 2018 @ 7:59 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.5103 East, latitude -6.0975 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ninety-two, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 103 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0975° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km SW of Porgera, 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 2018-03-02 07:59:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-02 08:16:53 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 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 5.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us2000daw7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000daw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000daw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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