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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on August 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.4081S, 147.9121WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 18 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea (11 miles) on Thursday. 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 66.252 km (41 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000r2p7. Event ids that are associated: us6000r2p7. Global time and date of event 21/08/25 / 2025-08-21 01:24:15 / August 21, 2025 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 147.9121 East, latitude -6.4081 South, depth = 66.252 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:24:15 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-three 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.

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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: 18 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.9121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4081° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.252 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km NNE of Finschhafen, 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 2025-08-21 01:24:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-21 01:41:49 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 340 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.069 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us6000r2p7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2p7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2p7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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