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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Kavieng in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.747S, 149.5267WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 191 km SW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea (119 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 20:49:20 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.5267 East, latitude -3.747 South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003x6b. Unique identifier: us70003x6b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/06/19 / 2019-06-08 10:49:20 / June 8, 2019 @ 10:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 191 km SW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.5267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.747° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 191km SW of Kavieng, 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 2019-06-08 10:49:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-08 11:07:02 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 0 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 2.667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us70003x6b Id of event.
Event Code 70003x6b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003x6b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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