A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 147.6192 East, latitude -6.2117 South, depth = 76.662 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/25 / 2025-05-18 16:51:00 / May 18, 2025 @ 4:51 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:51:00 / 4:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 76.662 km (48 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000q01k. Event ids that are associated: us7000q01k.
Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 45 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.
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