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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.2274S, 142.8348WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Event id: us2000db9r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000db9r. The temblor was detected at 04:42:29 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/03/18 / 2018-03-02 18:42:29 / March 2, 2018 @ 6:42 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 142.8348° East, -6.2274° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendi, Tari. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 90 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.8348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2274° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km W 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 2018-03-02 18:42:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-02 19:54:20 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 0 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 312 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 5.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us2000db9r Id of event.
Event Code 2000db9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000db9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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