Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 111 kilometers (69 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:55:48 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/02/21 / 2021-02-09 02:55:48 / February 9, 2021 @ 2:55 am. Exact location, longitude 151.7403° East, latitude -5.2018° South, depth = 52.86 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.86 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dfsv. Id of event: us6000dfsv.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo. Earthquake epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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 nine and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 111 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.7403° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.2018° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111 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	2021-02-09 02:55:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-09 03:11:21	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	3.989	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	500	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	1.089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us6000dfsv	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dfsv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dfsv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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