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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Angoram in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -4.4422S, 144.368WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 km SE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea (33 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pxfh. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pxfh. The temblor was reported at 04:39:32 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/25 / 2025-05-06 04:39:32 / May 6, 2025 @ 4:39 am. Exact location of event, longitude 144.368 East, latitude -4.4422 South, depth = 135.052 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 135.052 km (84 miles).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km SE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.368° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4422° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 135.052 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km SE of Angoram, 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 2025-05-06 04:39:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-06 04:54:03 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 432 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.826 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000pxfh Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxfh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxfh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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