Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Id of earthquake: us6000qlwa. Event ids that are associated: us6000qlwa. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/25 / 2025-06-23 03:17:16 / June 23, 2025 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.7715 East, latitude -5.9084 South, depth = 47.878 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.878 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:17:16 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 80 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.7715° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9084° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.878 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80 km ESE of Kimbe, 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	2025-06-23 03:17:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-23 03:32:49	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	432	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.198	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us6000qlwa	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qlwa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qlwa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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