A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us2000d8nf. Event ids that are associated: us2000d8nf. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 07:19:23 / February 27, 2018 @ 7:19 am. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:19:23 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7909 East, latitude -6.3225 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 96 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.
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