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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 94 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1639S, 148.6963WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes 94 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea (58 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 148.6963° East, -6.1639° South, depth 48.82 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.82 km (30 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usd00090uc. Id of event: usd00090uc. The temblor was detected at 04:30:34 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 18:30:34 / July 19, 2018 @ 6:30 pm UTC/GMT.

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 thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 94 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.6963° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1639° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km W of Kandrian, 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 2018-07-19 18:30:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-19 18:56:41 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 4.46 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 518 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 3.561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 usd00090uc Id of event.
Event Code d00090uc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd00090uc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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