A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. Global time and date of event 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 08:26:24 / March 1, 2018 @ 8:26 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d27b. Unique identifier: us1000d27b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:26:24 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 149.75 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 146.5026° East, latitude -5.49° South, depth = 149.75 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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