Quakedle
Puzzle #89 was 79 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M6.2 — strong class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 53.5 km — shallow
- Region
- Papua New Guinea and the Solomons
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- No DYFI count reported
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Australian Plate · Pacific Plate
- Tectonic context
- Rapid convergence between the Australian and Pacific plates is divided among several trenches, microplates, and faults.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M6.2. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Strong (M6.0–6.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 53.5 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “79 km SSE of Panguna, Papua New Guinea”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Papua New Guinea and the Solomons
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mww”. What does that code mean?
- Mww — W-phase moment magnitude