A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000dd4w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dd4w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:21:47 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 143.3051 East, latitude -6.3467 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 22:21:47 / February 26, 2018 @ 10:21 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ialibu, Tari, Mendi (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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