Major earthquake: M7.2 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A major earthquake with magnitude 7.2 (ml/mb) was reported 156 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (97 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt18088001, at00p6dfiq. Unique identifier: at00p6dfiq. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 21:25:38 / March 29, 2018 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 151.6° East, latitude -5.6° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 7.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:25:38 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. Every year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 156 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.6° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.6° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	156km 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	2018-03-29 21:25:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-29 21:33:28	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	798	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.800422	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57.599995392	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00p6dfiq	Id of event.
Event Code	00p6dfiq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt18088001,at00p6dfiq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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