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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 49 km ESE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3902S, 146.2982WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Kainantu in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 02:56:30 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kainantu in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 16:56:30 / July 18, 2018 @ 4:56 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.85 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000g816. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g816. Exact location of event, longitude 146.2982 East, latitude -6.3902 South, depth = 99.85 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bulolo, Lae, Kainantu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km ESE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea. This information 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 146.2982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3902° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ESE of Kainantu, 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 2018-07-18 16:56:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 17:18:50 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 8.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us2000g816 Id of event.
Event Code 2000g816 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g816, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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