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

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.95 km (76 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006r5x. Id of event: us70006r5x. Global time and date of event 26/12/19 / 2019-12-26 09:24:35 / December 26, 2019 @ 9:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:24:35 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 121.95 km, 150.8466° East, -5.4887° South.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 78 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.8466° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.4887° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	121.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km E of Kimbe, 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	2019-12-26 09:24:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-26 09:42:46	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	4.875	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us70006r5x	Id of event.
Event Code	70006r5x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006r5x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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