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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on March 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.5249S, 143.1115WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.74 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:47:15 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/03/18 / 2018-03-05 11:47:15 / March 5, 2018 @ 11:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 143.1115° East, -6.5249° South, depth 24.74 km. Unique identifier: us2000dce4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dce4.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari, Mendi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 71 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1115° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5249° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.74 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 2018-03-05 11:47:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-05 12:09:02 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 340 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 4.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000dce4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dce4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dce4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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