A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 142.9725° East, -6.3033° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 03:10:59 / February 26, 2018 @ 3:10 am UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:10:59 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000d7wl. Event ids that are associated: us2000d7wl.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 76 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.
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