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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.4596S, 151.6103WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 142 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (88 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 03:39:28 / June 30, 2015 @ 3:39 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 151.6103 East, latitude -5.4596 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:39:28 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10002mhg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002mhg.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 142 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.6103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.4596° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km 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 2015-06-30 03:39:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 04:02:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.33 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 1.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us10002mhg Id of event.
Event Code 10002mhg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mhg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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