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Strong earthquake 6.3 mag, 56 km SW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.5019S, 143.2616WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.2616 East, latitude -6.5019 South, depth = 5.2 km. Global time and date of event 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 15:17:57 / February 26, 2018 @ 3:17 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d867. Unique identifier: us2000d867. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.2 km (3 miles). The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:17:57 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wabag, Ialibu, Tari (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 84 km (53 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop), 124 km (77 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

Did you feel the quake?

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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km SW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.2616° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5019° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 15:17:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 15:37:10 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 611 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 4.819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d867 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d867 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d867, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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