Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.0547 East, latitude -4.5447 South, depth = 110.704 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rh0g. Unique identifier: us6000rh0g. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.704 km (69 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 08:57:22 / October 14, 2025 @ 8:57 am. The temblor was reported at 08:57:22 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 90 km ESE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.0547° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.5447° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110.704 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90 km ESE 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	2025-10-14 08:57:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-15 08:56:15	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	326	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.955	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us6000rh0g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rh0g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rh0g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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