A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d941. Id of event: us2000d941. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 11:35:16 / February 28, 2018 @ 11:35 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:35:16 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.4684 East, latitude -6.0001 South, depth = 10 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, 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 was reported nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 100 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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