A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us2000d7tt. Event ids that are associated: us2000d7tt. Exact location of event, depth 16.63 km, 142.6503° East, -5.9635° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.63 km (10 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:47:46 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 21:47:46 / February 25, 2018 @ 9:47 pm UTC/GMT.
Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 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/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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