A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 00:18:51 / February 28, 2018 @ 12:18 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:18:51 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 143.1969 East, latitude -6.3072 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000d8xs. Event ids that are associated: us2000d8xs.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ialibu, Tari, Mendi (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km WSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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