Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/25 / 2025-06-28 18:08:23 / June 28, 2025 @ 6:08 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:08:23 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.005 km (29 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qblf. Unique identifier: us7000qblf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 155.2234° East, -6.7124° South, depth 46.005 km.

Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 52 km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	155.2234° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.7124° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.005 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52 km SSW 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	2025-06-28 18:08:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-23 18:24:28	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	284	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.943	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us7000qblf	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qblf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qblf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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