Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 43 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Namatanai in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 23:12:04 / December 21, 2018 @ 11:12 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Namatanai in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:12:04 / 9:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 347.51 km (216 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 152.0862 East, latitude -3.491 South, depth = 347.51 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iw51. Id of event: us2000iw51.

Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km WNW of Namatanai, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.0862° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.491° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	347.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km WNW of Namatanai, 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	2018-12-21 23:12:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-21 23:32:22	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	0.699	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	us2000iw51	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iw51	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iw51,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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