Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near New Guinea, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. 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, 143.3109° East, -6.76° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7sj. Id of event: us2000d7sj. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:38:02 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 20:38:02 / February 25, 2018 @ 8:38 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ialibu, Mendi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.3109° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.76° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	New Guinea, 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 20:38:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 20:16:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	354	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	4.628	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us2000d7sj	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d7sj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d7sj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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