Strong earthquake: M6.3 quake has struck near Porgera in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:48:38 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 05:48:38 / April 7, 2018 @ 5:48 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 142.4899° East, -5.8413° South. Id of earthquake: us2000dvwq. Event ids that are associated: us2000dvwq.

The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari.

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.4899° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.8413° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	88km WSW 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	2018-04-07 05:48:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-07 06:05:34	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	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.06	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	612	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	6.155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	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	us2000dvwq	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dvwq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dvwq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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