Magnitude 6.8 NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
2003 March 11 07:27:31 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
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Magnitude | 6.8 | |
| Date-Time |
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 07:27:31 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 05:27:31 PM local time at epicenter |
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| Location | 4.66S 153.13E | ||
| Depth | 33.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | ||
| Reference |
25 km (15 miles) SSE of Taron, New Ireland, PNG 115 km (70 miles) ESE of Rabaul, New Britain, PNG 840 km (520 miles) NE of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea 2520 km (1570 miles) N of Brisbane, Australia |
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| Location Quality | Error estimate: horizontal +/- 10.5 km; depth fixed by location program | ||
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Location Quality Parameters |
Nst=50, Nph=50, Dmin=1860.1 km, Rmss=0.81 sec, Erho=10.5 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=92.7 degrees | ||
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) | ||
| Remarks | Rockfalls occurred, items knocked from shelves and utilities disrupted on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain. |
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NB:
The region name is an automatically generated name
from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme.
The boundaries of
these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from
irregular political boundaries.
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