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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.1352S, 142.9995WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:09:37 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 22:09:37 / February 25, 2018 @ 10:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 142.9995° East, -6.1352° South, depth 35 km. Event id: us2000d7u3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7u3.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 72 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.9995° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1352° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 22:09:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 00:54:34 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 312 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 5.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us2000d7u3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7u3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7u3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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