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


Earthquake location -5.5937S, 147.266WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 124 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (77 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q06r. Unique identifier: us7000q06r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:37:40 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 172.529 km (107 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 147.266° East, -5.5937° South, depth 172.529 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/25 / 2025-05-03 17:37:40 / May 3, 2025 @ 5:37 pm.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 124 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. This data 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 147.266° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5937° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 172.529 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124 km NNW of Finschhafen, 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 2025-05-03 17:37:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-28 15:33:00 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us7000q06r Id of event.
Event Code 7000q06r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q06r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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