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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Madang in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -5.404S, 146.4152WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 145.206 km (90 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000q1le. Event ids that are associated: us7000q1le. Exact location of event, longitude 146.4152 East, latitude -5.404 South, depth = 145.206 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:33:20 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 03:33:20 / May 11, 2025 @ 3:33 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.4152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.404° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 145.206 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km ESE of Madang, 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 2025-05-11 03:33:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-26 23:30:56 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 259 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us7000q1le Id of event.
Event Code 7000q1le An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q1le, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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