Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Kandrian in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Kandrian in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.248 km (36 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/25 / 2025-10-11 15:04:05 / October 11, 2025 @ 3:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:04:05 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.9302 East, latitude -6.1703 South, depth = 57.248 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rgl1. Unique identifier: us6000rgl1.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kimbe (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Kimbe (c. 18 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km E of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.9302° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.1703° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.248 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km E of Kandrian, 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	2025-10-11 15:04:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-11 16:10:24	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	125	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.969	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	us6000rgl1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rgl1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rgl1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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