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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 160 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on April 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.1937S, 151.4339WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 160 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea (99 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 151.4339° East, latitude -6.1937° South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000q66z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q66z. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:36:12 / 8:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/04/25 / 2025-04-04 20:36:12 / April 4, 2025 @ 8:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 160 km ESE of Kimbe, 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 151.4339° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1937° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160 km ESE of Kimbe, 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 2025-04-04 20:36:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-30 18:21:58 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000q66z Id of event.
Event Code 6000q66z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q66z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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