A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7554 East, latitude -6.2692 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 07:38:42 / March 8, 2018 @ 7:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us1000d59h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d59h. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:38:42 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 45 km (28 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).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 99 km W of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.
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