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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Mendi in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.3284S, 143.0611WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us2000dc11. Event ids that are associated: us2000dc11. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/18 / 2018-03-04 11:44:24 / March 4, 2018 @ 11:44 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:44:24 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0611 East, latitude -6.3284 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every 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. 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: 67 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0611° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3284° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2018-03-04 11:44:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-04 12:01:59 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 400 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 5.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 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 us2000dc11 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dc11 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dc11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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