Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 112 kilometers (70 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact location, longitude 151.4407° East, latitude -4.9448° South, depth = 24.37 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.37 km (15 miles). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:50:32 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/05/19 / 2019-05-31 17:50:32 / May 31, 2019 @ 5:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003tue. Id of event: us70003tue. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo. Epicenter of the event was 112 km (70 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 112 km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.4407° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.9448° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	112km SW 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	2019-05-31 17:50:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-31 18:10:29	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	465	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	1.039	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us70003tue	Id of event.
Event Code	70003tue	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003tue,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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