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

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.158 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 11:48:41 / May 10, 2024 @ 11:48 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:48:41 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mxpy. Id of event: us6000mxpy. Exact location of earthquake, 151.8945° East, -5.2267° South, depth 37.158 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 105 km (66 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 106 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.8945° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.2267° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.158 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	106 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	2024-05-10 11:48:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-11 11:52:25	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	4.516	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	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.267	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us6000mxpy	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mxpy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mxpy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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