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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 79 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.9709S, 151.8934WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d58j. Unique identifier: us2000d58j. Global time and date of event 20/02/18 / 2018-02-20 07:59:45 / February 20, 2018 @ 7:59 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.97 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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, longitude 151.8934° East, latitude -4.9709° South, depth = 95.97 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:59:45 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 79 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.8934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.9709° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2018-02-20 07:59:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-20 08:19:21 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 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 0.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us2000d58j Id of event.
Event Code 2000d58j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d58j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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