Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Lae in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000pv4w. Event ids that are associated: us7000pv4w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.44 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/25 / 2025-04-25 22:15:39 / April 25, 2025 @ 10:15 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:15:39 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.3924 East, latitude -6.7251 South, depth = 37.44 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wau, Bulolo, Lae (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Wau (c. 14 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 43 km E of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.3924° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.7251° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km E of Lae, 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	2025-04-25 22:15:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-25 22:51:48	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	385	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	85	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.672	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pv4w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pv4w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pv4w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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