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Strong earthquake 6.2 mag, 122 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.4509S, 152.0983WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 122 kilometers (76 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.29 km (19 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:04:29 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 31.29 km, 152.0983° East, -5.4509° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/02/20 / 2020-02-09 06:04:29 / February 9, 2020 @ 6:04 am. Id of earthquake: us70007lwy. Event ids that are associated: us70007lwy.

Epicenter of the event was 124 km (77 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 122 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.0983° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.4509° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122km 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 2020-02-09 06:04:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-09 06:26:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.788 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 592 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 1.253 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us70007lwy Id of event.
Event Code 70007lwy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lwy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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