Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kimbe in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Kimbe in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/07/25 / 2025-07-21 22:35:16 / July 21, 2025 @ 10:35 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 150.9791 East, latitude -5.4772 South, depth = 98.202 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qu0x. Event ids that are associated: us6000qu0x. The temblor was picked up at 22:35:16 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98.202 km (61 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 93 km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	150.9791° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.4772° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98.202 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93 km E 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	2025-07-21 22:35:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-22 03:43:56	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	326	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.739	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us6000qu0x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qu0x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qu0x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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