A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us2000d954. Event ids that are associated: us2000d954. The temblor was detected at 00:00:56 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.453° East, latitude -6.0958° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Porgera in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 14:00:56 / February 28, 2018 @ 2:00 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days seventy-five, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.
Did you feel the quake?
How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 108 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.
Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply