A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Kavieng in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 150.4813 East, latitude -3.1196 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:23:38 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q9km. Unique identifier: us7000q9km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/06/25 / 2025-06-16 05:23:38 / June 16, 2025 @ 5:23 am.
Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kavieng (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Kavieng (c. 14 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 69 km SSW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea.
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