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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.0296S, 152.9088WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 103 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea (64 miles) on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.912 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:06:38 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 152.9088° East, latitude -5.0296° South, depth = 50.912 km. Unique identifier: us6000mx0b. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mx0b. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/24 / 2024-04-29 22:06:38 / April 29, 2024 @ 10:06 pm.

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

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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: 103 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.9088° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.0296° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.912 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km SE 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 2024-04-29 22:06:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-22 23:10:29 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 326 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us6000mx0b Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx0b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx0b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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