A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 14:30:36 / February 28, 2018 @ 2:30 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d95w. Unique identifier: us2000d95w. Exact location of event, longitude 142.6837 East, latitude -6.3442 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:30:36 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 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 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days eighty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 108 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.
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