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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Popondetta in Papua New Guinea

Posted by admin on October 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.0904S, 148.4676WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Popondetta in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us6000rf5d. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rf5d. The temblor was detected at 17:11:08 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 148.4676° East, latitude -8.0904° South, depth = 47.994 km. Global time and date of event 06/10/25 / 2025-10-06 17:11:08 / October 6, 2025 @ 5:11 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.994 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Popondetta (c. 28 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Popondetta (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 79 km NNE of Popondetta, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.4676° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0904° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.994 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km NNE of Popondetta, 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 2025-10-06 17:11:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-06 17:36:45 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 369 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000rf5d Id of event.
Event Code 6000rf5d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rf5d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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