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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on April 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.5105S, 154.3008WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 132 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (82 miles). Global time and date of event 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 02:53:05 / April 25, 2020 @ 2:53 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panguna in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 154.3008° East, -6.5105° South, depth 16.85 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.85 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009c06. Id of event: us60009c06. The temblor was detected at 12:53:05 / 12:53 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 132 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.3008° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5105° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km W of Panguna, 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 2020-04-25 02:53:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-25 03:16:23 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 4.111 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 611 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 3.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us60009c06 Id of event.
Event Code 60009c06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009c06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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