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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2665S, 147.6572WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d2mx. Unique identifier: us7000d2mx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/21 / 2021-01-23 08:34:32 / January 23, 2021 @ 8:34 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.6572 East, latitude -6.2665 South, depth = 47.38 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:34:32 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.38 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lae (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6572° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2665° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km NNW of Finschhafen, 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 2021-01-23 08:34:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-23 08:54:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 4.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us7000d2mx Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2mx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2mx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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