Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag was detected near Taron in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.2016 East, latitude -4.3887 South, depth = 15.22 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:39:50 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 17:39:50 / March 8, 2018 @ 5:39 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.22 km (9 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18067000, at00p5a92i, us1000d1kv. Id of event: us1000d1kv.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo. Epicenter of the event was 104 km (65 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 116 km (72 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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: 20 km ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.2016° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.3887° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km ENE 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	2018-03-08 17:39:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-08 18:06:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.84	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	711	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	,pt,at,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	1.053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	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	us1000d1kv	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d1kv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt18067000,at00p5a92i,us1000d1kv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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