A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us2000d913. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d913. Global time and date of event 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 04:14:31 / February 28, 2018 @ 4:14 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 14:14:31 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.5035 East, latitude -6.0891 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari. Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 103 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.
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