2018 Tari earthquake

The epicentre lay in the Papua New Guinea highlands southwest of Tari, in Hela Province, a position also given as 81 km southwest of Porgera. The rupture was a shallow one in the crust beneath the central highlands.

Origin time (UTC)

2018-02-25T17:44

Magnitude

7.5

Magnitude type

mww

Depth (km)

25.21

USGS event page

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000d7q6

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: papua new guinea, tari, hela province, highlands

Coordinates: -6.0699, 142.7536

Part of Earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands since 1990

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