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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.8052S, 151.7219WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 171 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (106 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:02:16 / 6:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.3 km (32 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 08:02:16 / November 10, 2018 @ 8:02 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000hq7w. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hq7w. Exact location of event, longitude 151.7219 East, latitude -5.8052 South, depth = 52.3 km.

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 171 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.7219° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.8052° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171km 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 2018-11-10 08:02:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 08:23:30 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 4.23 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 500 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 1.662 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hq7w Id of event.
Event Code 1000hq7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hq7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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