Major magnitude 7.6 earthquake - 80 km northwest of Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:46 am (GMT +10) - 1 hour 9 minutes ago
Updated: Sep 11, 2022 00:54 GMT - 93 seconds ago
Major magnitude 7.6 earthquake at 61 km depth
10 Sep 23:51 UTC:
First to report: VolcanoDiscovery after 5 minutes.
10 Sep 23:54: Now using data updates from GFZ
10 Sep 23:55: Magnitude recalculated from 7.7 to 7.6. Epicenter location corrected by 26 km (16 mi) towards WNW.
10 Sep 23:56: Now using data updates from USGS
10 Sep 23:58: Hypocenter depth recalculated from 78.8 to 79.0 km (from 49 to 49 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 3.4 km (2.1 mi) towards SE.
11 Sep 00:07: Magnitude recalculated from 7.7 to 7.6. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 79.0 to 61.4 km (from 49 to 38 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 20 km (12 mi) towards N.
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11 Sep 00:07: Magnitude recalculated from 7.7 to 7.6. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 79.0 to 61.4 km (from 49 to 38 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 20 km (12 mi) towards N.
Update Sun, 11 Sep 2022, 00:18
Very strong magnitude 7.6 earthquake 80 km northwest of Lae, Papua New Guinea
7.6 quake 11 Sep 9:46 am (GMT +10)
Papua New Guinea was shaken near Lae, Morobe Province, by an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 31 minutes ago, the United States Geological Survey reported.
The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 61.4 km beneath the epicenter near Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, in the morning on Sunday, September 11th, 2022, at 9:46 am local time. Magnitude and other quake parameters can still change in the coming hours as the agency continues to process seismic data.
A second report was later issued by Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), which listed it as a magnitude 7.4 earthquake. Other agencies reporting the same quake include Geoscience Australia (GeoAu) at magnitude 7.6, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 7.6, France's Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS) at magnitude 7.1, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 7.6, and the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) at magnitude 7.6.
Generally quakes of this magnitude are recorded by more than one agency and the results can vary, with subsequent reports that come in after the first one often showing more accuracy.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should have been felt by everybody in the area of the epicenter. In those areas, dangerous ground shaking occurred with the potential to inflict moderate to heavy damage to buildings and other infrastructure.
Towns or cities where the quake likely caused strong ground shaking include
Moderate shaking probably occurred in Bulolo (pop. 16,000) located 111 km from the epicenter, Goroka (pop. 18,500) 121 km away, Wau (pop. 14,600) 127 km away, Madang (pop. 27,400) 135 km away, and Kundiawa (pop. 9,400) 168 km away.
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