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Strong earthquake 6.4 mag, 81 km ENE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on May 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.8503S, 144.7662WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 81 km ENE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea (50 miles). The 6.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:05:58 / 3:05 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/05/25 / 2025-05-20 15:05:58 / May 20, 2025 @ 3:05 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt25140000, at00swkfa5, us7000q0bm. Id of event: us7000q0bm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Angoram in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.7662 East, latitude -3.8503 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 81 km ENE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.7662° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.8503° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81 km ENE 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 2025-05-20 15:05:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-20 15:32:05 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 6.769 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 630 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 ,pt,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 152 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000q0bm Id of event.
Event Code 7000q0bm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt25140000,at00swkfa5,us7000q0bm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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