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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 23 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on January 25, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.5459S, 152.1981WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99.36 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 99.36 km, 152.1981° East, -4.5459° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000d32y. Event ids that are associated: us7000d32y. The temblor was detected at 07:53:22 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/21 / 2021-01-25 07:53:22 / January 25, 2021 @ 7:53 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.1981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5459° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km SSW 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 2021-01-25 07:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-25 08:13:21 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 4.057 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 0.354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us7000d32y Id of event.
Event Code 7000d32y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d32y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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