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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.4485S, 151.9694WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 15:44:05 / December 21, 2015 @ 3:44 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100048lk. Id of event: us100048lk. The temblor was reported at 01:44:05 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 168.47 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 151.9694 East, latitude -4.4485 South, depth = 168.47 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km WSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.9694° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4485° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 168.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km WSW 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 2015-12-21 15:44:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 16:03:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 416 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 0.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us100048lk Id of event.
Event Code 100048lk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048lk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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