A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Mendi in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 18:15:22 / February 25, 2018 @ 6:15 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:15:22 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mendi in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 143.3813 East, latitude -6.7339 South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000dcxr. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dcxr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ialibu (c. 6 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ialibu, Mendi. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 68 km SSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea.
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