Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qb69. Id of event: us7000qb69. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/25 / 2025-07-07 15:19:02 / July 7, 2025 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.2433 East, latitude -6.0803 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:19:02 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe. Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km SSE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.2433° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.0803° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 km SSE 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	2025-07-07 15:19:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-07 15:47:09	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	271	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.679	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us7000qb69	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qb69	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qb69,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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