A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 14:45:21 / February 28, 2018 @ 2:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 142.7611 East, latitude -6.0618 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000d95l. Event ids that are associated: us2000d95l. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:45:21 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 99 km (62 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendi, Tari. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-three and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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