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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.0272S, 151.9192WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 80.79 km (50 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 151.9192° East, -5.0272° South, depth 80.79 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/16 / 2016-08-06 21:14:40 / August 6, 2016 @ 9:14 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:14:40 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006cce. Id of event: us10006cce.

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 83 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.9192° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.0272° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km 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 2016-08-06 21:14:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-18 23:40:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 0 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 298 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 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us10006cce Id of event.
Event Code 10006cce An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cce, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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