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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Mendi in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2481S, 143.1622WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, longitude 143.1622 East, latitude -6.2481 South, depth = 34.31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7rl. Id of event: us2000d7rl. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.31 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:05:01 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 19:05:01 / February 25, 2018 @ 7:05 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Mendi, Tari. Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 54 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1622° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2481° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km W of Mendi, 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 2018-02-25 19:05:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-25 20:58:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000d7rl Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7rl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7rl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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