A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 104 kilometers (65 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3015 East, latitude -5.7415 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:35:37 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8mm. Unique identifier: us2000d8mm. Global time and date of event 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 05:35:37 / February 27, 2018 @ 5:35 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 104 km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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