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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.1568S, 150.7798WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/25 / 2025-04-10 10:54:36 / April 10, 2025 @ 10:54 am. Exact location of event, longitude 150.7798 East, latitude -6.1568 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000q53n. Event ids that are associated: us6000q53n. The temblor was picked up at 10:54:36 / 10:54 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kimbe.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 97 km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.7798° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1568° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 km SE 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 2025-04-10 10:54:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-08 12:40:34 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 340 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us6000q53n Id of event.
Event Code 6000q53n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q53n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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