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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 146 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea

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Earthquake location -5.7849S, 154.2729WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 146 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (91 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 142.013 km (88 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/25 / 2025-06-25 12:18:32 / June 25, 2025 @ 12:18 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 154.2729° East, -5.7849° South, depth 142.013 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qb14. Unique identifier: us7000qb14. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:18:32 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 146 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.2729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7849° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.013 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 146 km WNW of Panguna, 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 2025-06-25 12:18:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-13 04:59:30 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us7000qb14 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qb14 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qb14, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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