Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.1854 East, latitude -6.3789 South, depth = 23.44 km. Unique identifier: us2000d8q3. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8q3. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.44 km (15 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:58:28 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 13:58:28 / February 27, 2018 @ 1:58 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Tari, Mendi. 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 56 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.1854° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.3789° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km 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	2018-02-27 13:58:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-27 14:17:06	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	385	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	4.953	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000d8q3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d8q3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d8q3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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