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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 117 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on August 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.384S, 151.9976WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 117 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (73 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100032cc. Event ids that are associated: us100032cc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 21:52:05 / July 27, 2015 @ 9:52 pm. The temblor was reported at 07:52:05 / 7:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.49 km (32 miles). Exact location of event, depth 51.49 km, 151.9976° East, -5.384° South.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 117 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.9976° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.384° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km SSW of Kokopo, 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 2015-07-27 21:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-18 03:22:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1 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 432 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us100032cc Id of event.
Event Code 100032cc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032cc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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