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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.8649S, 152.5106WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 00:13:05 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000p70m. Unique identifier: us6000p70m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.164 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/11/24 / 2024-11-06 00:13:05 / November 6, 2024 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 56.164 km, 152.5106° East, -4.8649° South.

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km SSE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.5106° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8649° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.164 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km SSE 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 2024-11-06 00:13:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-23 04:44:52 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 271 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us6000p70m Id of event.
Event Code 6000p70m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p70m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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