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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 137 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.5808S, 152.1142WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 137 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (85 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bed2. Unique identifier: us7000bed2. Exact location, longitude 152.1142° East, latitude -5.5808° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/20 / 2020-08-25 19:07:18 / August 25, 2020 @ 7:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:07:18 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 137 km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.1142° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5808° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137 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 2020-08-25 19:07:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-28 16:09:19 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 385 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 1.381 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 102 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 us7000bed2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bed2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bed2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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