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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Mendi in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.4178S, 143.0483WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 06:19:12 / February 27, 2018 @ 6:19 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000d8my. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d8my. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0483 East, latitude -6.4178 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:19:12 / 4:19 pm (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). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Mendi, Tari. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 71 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4178° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 06:19:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-27 06:30:21 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 482 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 5.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us2000d8my Id of event.
Event Code 2000d8my An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d8my, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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