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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 46 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3612S, 143.2755WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Event id: us2000k6eq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k6eq. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/03/19 / 2019-03-28 09:10:06 / March 28, 2019 @ 9:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.2755 East, latitude -6.3612 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:10:06 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Tari, Mendi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 46 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.2755° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3612° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km 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 2019-03-28 09:10:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-28 09:29:55 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 416 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 7.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000k6eq Id of event.
Event Code 2000k6eq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k6eq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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