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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on May 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.6348S, 143.0471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.08 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 143.0471 East, latitude -6.6348 South, depth = 16.08 km. Event id: us1000eb3t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eb3t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/18 / 2018-05-20 14:49:30 / May 20, 2018 @ 2:49 pm. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:30 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 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 Mendi, Tari.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 83 km SW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.6348° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SW 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 2018-05-20 14:49:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-24 19:59:24 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 271 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 7.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us1000eb3t Id of event.
Event Code 1000eb3t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eb3t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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