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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.4771S, 143.4273WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Event id: us2000d8dl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d8dl. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 19:21:51 / February 26, 2018 @ 7:21 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.21 km (13 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:21:51 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.4273 East, latitude -6.4771 South, depth = 21.21 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari, Ialibu, Mendi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km SW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.4273° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4771° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW 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 19:21:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 19:48:07 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 1 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 400 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 4.703 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us2000d8dl Id of event.
Event Code 2000d8dl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d8dl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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