Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 151.8711 East, latitude -5.0411 South, depth = 110.28 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/19 / 2019-03-09 13:29:05 / March 9, 2019 @ 1:29 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 110.28 km (69 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:29:05 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000jcw9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jcw9.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 87 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.8711° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.0411° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87km 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	2019-03-09 13:29:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-09 13:48:06	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	0	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	354	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	0.893	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	98	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	us1000jcw9	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jcw9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jcw9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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