A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported New Guinea, Papua New Guinea kilometers (0 miles) from New Guinea, Papua New Guinea on Monday. The temblor was detected at 13:49:41 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000eyp1. Unique identifier: us1000eyp1. Exact location of event, longitude 143.0619 East, latitude -6.0885 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 13:49:41 / June 18, 2018 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Mendi (c. 26 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendi, Tari.
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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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