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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on May 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.4785S, 152.1807WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was picked up at 11:17:20 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 11:17:20 / May 17, 2025 @ 11:17 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pzu9. Unique identifier: us7000pzu9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 277.144 km (172 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 152.1807 East, latitude -3.4785 South, depth = 277.144 km.

The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rabaul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 79 km N of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.1807° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.4785° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 277.144 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km N of Rabaul, 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 2025-05-17 11:17:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-17 11:40:04 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 298 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.016 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us7000pzu9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzu9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pzu9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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