A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 122 kilometers (76 miles) from Lake Murray in Papua New Guinea. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 08:46:30 / March 1, 2018 @ 8:46 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d27c. Unique identifier: us1000d27c. The temblor was reported at 18:46:30 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.4183° East, -6.2908° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tari (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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: 122 km ENE of Lake Murray, Papua New Guinea.
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