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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -3.7532S, 153.3409WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 135 km ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (84 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 16:45:33 / November 9, 2020 @ 4:45 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000ccjd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ccjd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 218.5 km (136 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:45:33 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 153.3409° East, -3.7532° South, depth 218.5 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 twenty-eight 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: 135 km ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.3409° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7532° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 218.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135 km ENE 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 2020-11-09 16:45:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-09 17:04:15 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 482 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 1.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us7000ccjd Id of event.
Event Code 7000ccjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ccjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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