A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.6969 East, latitude -6.1518 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000dd4x. Event ids that are associated: us2000dd4x. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 22:35:20 / February 26, 2018 @ 10:35 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:35:20 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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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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: 94 km SW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea.
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