A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8xf. Unique identifier: us2000d8xf. The temblor was picked up at 09:59:53 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.9929 East, latitude -6.2562 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 23:59:53 / February 27, 2018 @ 11:59 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, 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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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: 73 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.
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