A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8au. Unique identifier: us2000d8au. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:41:15 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 17:41:15 / February 26, 2018 @ 5:41 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.5129 East, latitude -5.8557 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari. Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 87 km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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