A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 05:51:26 / February 27, 2018 @ 5:51 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:51:26 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000d8ms. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d8ms. Exact location of event, longitude 143.0884 East, latitude -6.4679 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 70 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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