Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 112 kilometers (70 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.46 km (3 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 time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/03/18 / 2018-03-06 15:35:29 / March 6, 2018 @ 3:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.642 East, latitude -6.3237 South, depth = 4.46 km. Event id: us2000dd1f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dd1f. The temblor was picked up at 01:35:29 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 112 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.642° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.3237° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	112km 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	2018-03-06 15:35:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-06 16:01:03	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	5.422	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us2000dd1f	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dd1f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dd1f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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