Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Taron in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Taron in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Taron in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:21:07 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iu3w. Id of event: us2000iu3w. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 12:21:07 / December 16, 2018 @ 12:21 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.14 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 152.8629° East, -4.2366° South, depth 57.14 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. 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: 31 km NW of Taron, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.8629° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.2366° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NW of Taron, 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	2018-12-16 12:21:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-16 12:39:10	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	0.698	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us2000iu3w	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iu3w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iu3w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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