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


Earthquake location -5.2151S, 146.1784WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 03:21:53 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.45 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 17:21:53 / March 10, 2019 @ 5:21 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.1784 East, latitude -5.2151 South, depth = 41.45 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Madang in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jd8p. Unique identifier: us1000jd8p.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang. Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 42 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.1784° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2151° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km E 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 2019-03-10 17:21:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-10 17:36:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 3.366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us1000jd8p Id of event.
Event Code 1000jd8p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jd8p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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