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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tari in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on May 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.4127S, 142.7595WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Tari in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 11:37:00 / May 29, 2025 @ 11:37 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000qgmv. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qgmv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7595 East, latitude -6.4127 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:37:00 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Tari (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tari (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km SSW of Tari, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7595° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4127° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km SSW of Tari, 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 2025-05-29 11:37:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-30 09:04:31 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 326 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000qgmv Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgmv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgmv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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