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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0913S, 152.3351WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 193 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (120 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.3351 East, latitude -6.0913 South, depth = 41.64 km. Id of earthquake: us6000a2cv. Event ids that are associated: us6000a2cv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/05/20 / 2020-05-30 03:06:24 / May 30, 2020 @ 3:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:06:24 / 3:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.64 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 193 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.3351° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0913° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193 km 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 2020-05-30 03:06:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-30 03:23:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 1.895 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000a2cv Id of event.
Event Code 6000a2cv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a2cv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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