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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Mendi in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1221S, 143.0201WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The temblor was reported at 13:12:57 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 03:12:57 / February 26, 2018 @ 3:12 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 143.0201° East, latitude -6.1221° South, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us2000d7ws. Event ids that are associated: us2000d7ws.

The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wabag, Mendi, Tari. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 70 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0201° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1221° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 03:12:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-26 03:33:00 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 5.24 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us2000d7ws Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7ws An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7ws, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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