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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on January 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.9961S, 154.9462WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 95 km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (59 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/01/25 / 2025-01-17 01:10:39 / January 17, 2025 @ 1:10 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000pkjr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pkjr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:10:39 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 154.9462 East, latitude -6.9961 South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 95 km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.9462° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9961° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 km SW 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 2025-01-17 01:10:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-24 01:25:14 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 385 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.928 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pkjr Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkjr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkjr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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