Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:33:24 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 03:33:24 / March 8, 2018 @ 3:33 am 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). Exact location of event, longitude 142.9037 East, latitude -6.2327 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us1000d19n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d19n. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 82 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.9037° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2327° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km 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	2018-03-08 03:33:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-08 06:00:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	432	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	5.264	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us1000d19n	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d19n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d19n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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