Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Ialibu in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Ialibu in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 18:32:16 / February 25, 2018 @ 6:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:32:16 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Ialibu in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 143.8626° East, latitude -6.5385° South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000dcx4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dcx4.

Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Mount Hagen (c. 33 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mount Hagen, Mendi, Ialibu.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km SSW of Ialibu, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.8626° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.5385° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SSW of Ialibu, 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	2018-02-25 18:32:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-25 17:41:01	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	385	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	4.332	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us2000dcx4	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dcx4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dcx4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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