Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 117 kilometers (73 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 151.1355° East, latitude -5.9369° South, depth = 37.39 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.39 km (23 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:13:16 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 21:13:16 / October 10, 2018 @ 9:13 pm. Event id: us1000haaj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000haaj.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 118 km (73 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe.

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

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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: 117 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.1355° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9369° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	117km ESE 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	2018-10-10 21:13:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-10 21:34:07	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	4.36	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	536	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	2.014	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	us1000haaj	Id of event.
Event Code	1000haaj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000haaj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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