Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The temblor was reported at 18:41:58 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.88 km (68 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c7uj. Id of event: us6000c7uj. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/10/20 / 2020-10-12 18:41:58 / October 12, 2020 @ 6:41 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 152.1894° East, -4.7763° South, depth 108.88 km.

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.1894° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.7763° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	108.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 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	2020-10-12 18:41:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-12 19:08:30	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	369	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	0.581	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us6000c7uj	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c7uj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c7uj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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