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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Mendi in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2977S, 143.1497WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact location, longitude 143.1497° East, latitude -6.2977° South, depth = 38.32 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:49:45 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000d84n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d84n. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 12:49:45 / February 26, 2018 @ 12:49 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 38.32 km (24 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ialibu, Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1497° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2977° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km WSW 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 2018-02-26 12:49:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 13:07:15 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 354 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 5.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us2000d84n Id of event.
Event Code 2000d84n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d84n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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