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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.161S, 151.2034WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 125 km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (78 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600052m6. Id of event: us600052m6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.07 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:54:37 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 151.2034 East, latitude -5.161 South, depth = 129.07 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 02:54:37 / August 9, 2019 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 125 km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.2034° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.161° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125km ENE of Kimbe, 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 2019-08-09 02:54:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-09 03:12:19 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 432 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 1.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us600052m6 Id of event.
Event Code 600052m6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600052m6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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