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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3499S, 147.6778WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 02:03:55 / September 18, 2018 @ 2:03 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:03:55 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 147.6778° East, latitude -6.3499° South, depth = 35.66 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hg6v. Id of event: us2000hg6v. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.66 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6778° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3499° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NW of Finschhafen, 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 2018-09-18 02:03:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 02:18:57 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 400 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 3.078 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us2000hg6v Id of event.
Event Code 2000hg6v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hg6v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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