Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 66 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 152.6913 East, latitude -4.773 South, depth = 50.09 km. The temblor was reported at 16:46:47 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 16:46:47 / August 23, 2020 @ 4:46 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.09 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bjg0. Unique identifier: us6000bjg0.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.6913° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.773° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66 km SE 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	2020-08-23 16:46:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 17:07:40	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	3.748	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	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	0.781	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us6000bjg0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bjg0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bjg0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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