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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.14S, 153.4428WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 157 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (98 miles) on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000d78b. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000d78b. The temblor was detected at 11:49:42 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/21 / 2021-01-10 11:49:42 / January 10, 2021 @ 11:49 am. Exact location of event, longitude 153.4428 East, latitude -5.14 South, depth = 51.89 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.89 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 157 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.4428° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.14° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157 km SE 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 2021-01-10 11:49:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-10 12:06:37 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 385 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 1.585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000d78b Id of event.
Event Code 6000d78b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d78b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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