Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The temblor was reported at 16:33:58 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qywk. Id of event: us6000qywk. Exact location, longitude 152.9554° East, latitude -4.2625° South, depth = 8.43 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.43 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/25 / 2025-08-07 16:33:58 / August 7, 2025 @ 4:33 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 76 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.9554° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.2625° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	76 km E of Kokopo, 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	2025-08-07 16:33:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-07 16:58:51	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	7.303	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	554	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000qywk	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qywk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qywk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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