Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag was detected near Angoram in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 111 km NE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea (69 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 144.9 East, latitude -3.5 South, depth = 53 km. Global time and date of event 20/05/25 / 2025-05-20 15:05:59 / May 20, 2025 @ 3:05 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles). The 6.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:05:59 / 3:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: at00swkfa5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt25140000, at00swkfa5. A tsunami warning has been issued near Angoram in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 111 km NE of Angoram, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.9° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.5° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111 km NE 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 15:05:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-20 15:18:55	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	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	670	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46.799996256	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00swkfa5	Id of event.
Event Code	00swkfa5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25140000,at00swkfa5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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