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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 90 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.2669S, 142.8408WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us2000d82h. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d82h. The temblor was picked up at 20:07:48 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.9 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 142.8408° East, -6.2669° South, depth 35.9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 10:07:48 / February 26, 2018 @ 10:07 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari. Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.8408° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2669° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km W 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 2018-02-26 10:07:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 11:54:33 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 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 5.293 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 48 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 us2000d82h Id of event.
Event Code 2000d82h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d82h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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