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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.1065S, 145.386WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Event id: us6000b8cq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b8cq. Exact location of event, depth 122.29 km, 145.386° East, -5.1065° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/20 / 2020-08-02 14:15:47 / August 2, 2020 @ 2:15 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 122.29 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:15:47 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Goroka, Madang. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 109 km (67 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 ten 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. 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: 46 km WNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.386° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1065° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km WNW 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 2020-08-02 14:15:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-02 14:33:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 433 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 3.628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us6000b8cq Id of event.
Event Code 6000b8cq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8cq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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