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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

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Earthquake location -6.4968S, 142.6736WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 113 kilometers (70 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/04/18 / 2018-04-30 02:50:34 / April 30, 2018 @ 2:50 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dv3j. Unique identifier: us1000dv3j. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 142.6736° East, -6.4968° South. The temblor was detected at 12:50:34 / 12:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 113 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.6736° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4968° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km 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 2018-04-30 02:50:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-01 00:40:48 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 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 222 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 7.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us1000dv3j Id of event.
Event Code 1000dv3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dv3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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