Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Panguna in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 09:13:47 / October 28, 2025 @ 9:13 am. Id of earthquake: us6000rjwa. Event ids that are associated: us6000rjwa. Exact location, longitude 154.8329° East, latitude -6.6936° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 09:13:47 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa. Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 83 km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	154.8329° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.6936° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83 km WSW of Panguna, 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	2025-10-28 09:13:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-28 10:02:38	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	385	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.639	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us6000rjwa	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rjwa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rjwa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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