A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 10:56:48 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/18 / 2018-03-10 00:56:48 / March 10, 2018 @ 12:56 am. Unique identifier: us1000d2kw. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d2kw. Exact location of event, longitude 142.8671 East, latitude -6.3694 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendi, Tari (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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