A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.405 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/25 / 2025-09-27 18:01:15 / September 27, 2025 @ 6:01 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rhwy. Unique identifier: us6000rhwy. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:01:15 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 145.6568° East, latitude -4.7059° South, depth = 10.405 km.
The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madang (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 quakes 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 58 km NNW of Madang, Papua New Guinea.
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