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

Posted by admin on March 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.3556S, 142.7451WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:16:25 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 16:16:25 / February 26, 2018 @ 4:16 pm. Event id: us2000dd4g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dd4g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7451 East, latitude -6.3556 South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7451° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3556° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km 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 2018-02-26 16:16:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-11 15:44:13 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 5.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us2000dd4g Id of event.
Event Code 2000dd4g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dd4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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