Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:52:39 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 12:52:39 / October 30, 2018 @ 12:52 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hizn. Unique identifier: us1000hizn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 178.62 km (111 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 178.62 km, 152.0428° East, -4.2197° South.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 15 km (9 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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km W of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.0428° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.2197° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	178.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km W of Rabaul, 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	2018-10-30 12:52:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-30 13:12:13	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	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	0.123	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	47	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	us1000hizn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hizn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hizn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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