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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Mendi in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on May 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.5361S, 143.1306WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.1306 East, latitude -6.5361 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000dxt6. Event ids that are associated: us1000dxt6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 28/04/18 / 2018-04-28 03:26:46 / April 28, 2018 @ 3:26 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:26:46 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari, Mendi (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km SW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1306° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5361° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km SW 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 2018-04-28 03:26:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-26 01:18:30 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 246 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 4.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us1000dxt6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dxt6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dxt6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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