Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag was detected near Lae in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Lae in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 146.8 East, latitude -6.7 South, depth = 107 km. The 6.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:05:13 / 11:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107 km (66 miles). Id of earthquake: at00t3rdgt. Event ids that are associated: pt25280001, at00t3rdgt. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 11:05:13 / October 7, 2025 @ 11:05 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Wau (c. 14 600 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kainantu, Wau, Bulolo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km W of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Bulolo Kainantu Lae Papua New Guinea Wau

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	146.8° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.7° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km W of Lae, 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	2025-10-07 11:05:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-07 11:16:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.6	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	1	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	692	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43.199996544	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00t3rdgt	Id of event.
Event Code	00t3rdgt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25280001,at00t3rdgt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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