Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 135 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (84 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.41 km (26 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 of event, longitude 152.0641 East, latitude -5.5612 South, depth = 42.41 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 12:26:07 / December 21, 2018 @ 12:26 pm. Event id: us2000ivv1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivv1. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:26:07 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 135 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.0641° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.5612° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	135km S 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	2018-12-21 12:26:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-21 12:46:30	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		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	416	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	1.364	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us2000ivv1	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ivv1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ivv1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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