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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.4361S, 142.9406WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:11:20 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.9406° East, latitude -6.4361° South, depth = 24.03 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8q9. Unique identifier: us2000d8q9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.03 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 14:11:20 / February 27, 2018 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. 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 that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.9406° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4361° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km 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 2018-02-27 14:11:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-27 15:30:24 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 385 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 5.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us2000d8q9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d8q9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d8q9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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