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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.5594S, 155.0759WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:12:58 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000e9fw. Event ids that are associated: us1000e9fw. Exact location, longitude 155.0759° East, latitude -6.5594° South, depth = 42.9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 19:12:58 / May 21, 2018 @ 7:12 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.9 km (27 miles).

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.0759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5594° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km WSW of Panguna, 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 2018-05-21 19:12:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 19:31:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 449 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 3.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us1000e9fw Id of event.
Event Code 1000e9fw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e9fw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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