Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 33 km W of Madang, Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000gjn4. Unique identifier: us1000gjn4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68.25 km (42 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 145.4912° East, -5.2025° South, depth 68.25 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Madang in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/08/18 / 2018-08-29 18:57:33 / August 29, 2018 @ 6:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:57:33 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Kundiawa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kundiawa, Goroka, Madang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km W of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Goroka Kundiawa Madang Papua New Guinea

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.4912° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.2025° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km W of Madang, 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	2018-08-29 18:57:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-29 19:12:48	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	416	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	3.653	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us1000gjn4	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gjn4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gjn4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 33 km W of Madang, Papua New Guinea

How would you describe the shaking?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information