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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 92 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.2991S, 153.098WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/20 / 2020-12-13 22:05:59 / December 13, 2020 @ 10:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 153.098° East, -4.2991° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000cqv0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cqv0. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:05:59 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 92 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.098° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2991° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92 km E 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 2020-12-13 22:05:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-13 22:19:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 400 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 6.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000cqv0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cqv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cqv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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