A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 01:31:40 / February 26, 2018 @ 1:31 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 143.2392° East, -6.4174° South. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:31:40 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000d7w2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7w2.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Tari, Mendi. Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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