Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Madang in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on February 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.644S, 145.6644WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pade. Unique identifier: us7000pade. Exact location of earthquake, 145.6644° East, -5.644° South, depth 92.814 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 07:26:21 / January 23, 2025 @ 7:26 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.814 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:26:21 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Kundiawa (c. 9 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kundiawa, Kainantu, Goroka (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel anything?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 48 km SSW of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6644° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.644° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.814 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km SSW of Madang, Papua New Guinea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-23 07:26:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-07 13:40:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.959 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pade Id of event.
Event Code 7000pade An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pade, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today