A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 15:44:05 / December 21, 2015 @ 3:44 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100048lk. Id of event: us100048lk. The temblor was reported at 01:44:05 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 168.47 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 151.9694 East, latitude -4.4485 South, depth = 168.47 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 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 four and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km WSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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