Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 21:23:56 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/10/24 / 2024-10-14 21:23:56 / October 14, 2024 @ 9:23 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.728 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000npen. Id of event: us7000npen. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.751 East, latitude -4.9323 South, depth = 49.728 km.

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 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 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 84 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.751° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.9323° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.728 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	84 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	2024-10-14 21:23:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-08 02:09:51	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	298	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.941	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	203	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	us7000npen	Id of event.
Event Code	7000npen	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000npen,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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