A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.81 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 05:28:01 / February 26, 2018 @ 5:28 am. The temblor was picked up at 15:28:01 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.7798° East, -6.2495° South, depth 10.81 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d7ym. Unique identifier: us2000d7ym.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 96 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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