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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Porgera in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1831S, 142.4526WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 114 kilometers (71 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/04/18 / 2018-04-13 03:57:44 / April 13, 2018 @ 3:57 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dzds. Id of event: us2000dzds. Exact location of event, longitude 142.4526 East, latitude -6.1831 South, depth = 12.91 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.91 km (8 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:57:44 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.4526° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1831° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km 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 2018-04-13 03:57:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-13 04:13:41 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 385 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 6.397 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us2000dzds Id of event.
Event Code 2000dzds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dzds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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