A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Porgera in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was detected at 02:22:19 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.8481 East, latitude -6.139 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 16:22:19 / March 19, 2018 @ 4:22 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d85f. Unique identifier: us1000d85f.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendi, Tari. Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km SSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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