Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 143.622° East, -6.3281° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:38:40 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 04:38:40 / February 26, 2018 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000dd33. Event ids that are associated: us2000dd33.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wabag, Tari, Mount Hagen (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Mount Hagen (c. 33 600 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Wabag (c. 4 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 17 km S of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.622° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.3281° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km S 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 04:38:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-14 22:35:08	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	4.65	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us2000dd33	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dd33	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dd33,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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