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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Ambunti in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on July 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.0593S, 141.9282WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 100 km W of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea (62 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/25 / 2025-07-06 08:21:50 / July 6, 2025 @ 8:21 am. Event id: us7000qaz4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qaz4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107.765 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 141.9282° East, -4.0593° South, depth 107.765 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:21:50 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km W of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9282° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0593° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.765 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 km W of Ambunti, 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 2025-07-06 08:21:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-06 08:38:12 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 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 us7000qaz4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qaz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qaz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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