Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Kiunga in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 118 kilometers (73 miles) from Kiunga in Papua New Guinea. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:34:34 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 12:34:34 / May 23, 2019 @ 12:34 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiunga in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60003r5c. Event ids that are associated: us60003r5c. Exact location of earthquake, 142.3577° East, -6.2244° South, depth 10 km.

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari. Close 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. 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-nine 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 118 km E of Kiunga, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3577° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2244° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	118km E of Kiunga, 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	2019-05-23 12:34:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-23 12:52:24	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	5.711	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us60003r5c	Id of event.
Event Code	60003r5c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60003r5c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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