Earth Watch Report - Earthquakes
last 7 days
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M5.0 – 21km ESE of Taron, Papua New Guinea
2013-05-15 10:58:42 UTC
Event Time
- 2013-05-15 10:58:42 UTC
- 2013-05-15 20:58:42 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
- 2013-05-15 05:58:42 UTC-05:00 system time
Location
4.546°S 153.212°E depth=67.8km (42.1mi)
Nearby Cities
- 21km (13mi) ESE of Taron, Papua New Guinea
- 107km (66mi) ESE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
- 316km (196mi) NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
- 345km (214mi) SE of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea
- 858km (533mi) NE of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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M5.2 – 105km SSE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea
2013-05-15 23:16:49 UTC
Event Time
- 2013-05-15 23:16:49 UTC
- 2013-05-16 09:16:49 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
- 2013-05-15 18:16:49 UTC-05:00 system time
Location
4.873°S 144.576°E depth=68.2km (42.4mi)
Nearby Cities
- 105km (65mi) SSE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea
- 115km (71mi) NNE of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
- 140km (87mi) WNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea
- 161km (100mi) NW of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
- 581km (361mi) NNW of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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M5.4 – 118km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
2013-05-17 08:32:39 UTC
Event Time
- 2013-05-17 08:32:39 UTC
- 2013-05-17 18:32:39 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
- 2013-05-17 03:32:39 UTC-05:00 system time
Location
6.245°S 154.412°E depth=69.3km (43.0mi)
Nearby Cities
- 118km (73mi) W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
- 124km (77mi) W of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
- 317km (197mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
- 478km (297mi) E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
- 705km (438mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands
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M4.8 – 41km ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea
2013-05-17 21:23:29 UTC
Event Time
- 2013-05-17 21:23:29 UTC
- 2013-05-18 07:23:29 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
- 2013-05-17 16:23:29 UTC-05:00 system time
Location
6.134°S 149.918°E depth=65.8km (40.9mi)
Nearby Cities
- 41km (25mi) ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea
- 69km (43mi) SSW of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
- 326km (203mi) SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
- 330km (205mi) E of Lae, Papua New Guinea
- 474km (295mi) NE of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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Tectonic Summary
Seismotectonics of the New Guinea Region and Vicinity
The Australia-Pacific plate boundary is over 4000 km long on the northern margin, from the Sunda (Java) trench in the west to the Solomon Islands in the east. The eastern section is over 2300 km long, extending west from northeast of the Australian continent and the Coral Sea until it intersects the east coast of Papua New Guinea. The boundary is dominated by the general northward subduction of the Australia plate.
Along the South Solomon trench, the Australia plate converges with the Pacific plate at a rate of approximately 95 mm/yr towards the east-northeast. Seismicity along the trench is dominantly related to subduction tectonics and large earthquakes are common: there have been 13 M7.5+ earthquakes recorded since 1900. On April 1, 2007, a M8.1 interplate megathrust earthquake occurred at the western end of the trench, generating a tsunami and killing at least 40 people. This was the third M8.1 megathrust event associated with this subduction zone in the past century; the other two occurred in 1939 and 1977.
Further east at the New Britain trench, the relative motions of several microplates surrounding the Australia-Pacific boundary, including north-south oriented seafloor spreading in the Woodlark Basin south of the Solomon Islands, maintain the general northward subduction of Australia-affiliated lithosphere beneath Pacific-affiliated lithosphere. Most of the large and great earthquakes east of New Guinea are related to this subduction; such earthquakes are particularly concentrated at the cusp of the trench south of New Ireland. 33 M7.5+ earthquakes have been recorded since 1900, including three shallow thrust fault M8.1 events in 1906, 1919, and 2007.
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Papua New Guinea – 2 Earthquakes Registered at 4.9 and 5.7 Magnitude, May 14th , 2013. Total of 6 Moderate EQ’s in the last 3 days
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Papua New Guinea - 4 Earthquakes Registered at 5.0 – 4.6 Magnitude May 9th – 12th , 2013
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Related articles
- Papua New Guinea – 2 Earthquakes Registered at 4.8 Magnitude each (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
- 5 Earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 4.1 to 6.6 in Papua New Guinea April 13th and 14th , 2013 (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
- Papua New Guinea – 2 Earthquakes Registered at 4.9 and 5.7 Magnitude, May 14th , 2013. Total of 4 Moderate EQ’s in the last 3 days (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
- 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake – 32km N of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
- 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake – 23km ESE of Aitape, Papua New Guinea (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
- Very Strong earthquake close to the shore of Eastern Papua New Guinea, Aitape at risk (earthquake-report.com)
- M 4.2, near the north coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (earthquake.usgs.gov)
