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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 37 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.3147S, 143.3448WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 22:34:54 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.7 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 12:34:54 / February 26, 2018 @ 12:34 pm. Exact location, longitude 143.3448° East, latitude -6.3147° South, depth = 26.7 km. Id of earthquake: us2000d84y. Event ids that are associated: us2000d84y.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wabag, Ialibu, Tari. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop).

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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.3448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3147° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 12:34:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 13:20:33 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 416 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 4.869 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 38 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 us2000d84y Id of event.
Event Code 2000d84y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d84y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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