Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 77 km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 112.283 km, 151.8547° East, -4.9105° South. The temblor was reported at 06:31:01 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000recu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000recu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.283 km (70 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 06:31:01 / November 9, 2025 @ 6:31 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.8547° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.9105° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	112.283 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 km SW 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	2025-11-09 06:31:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-30 08:38:01	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	284	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.778	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us7000recu	Id of event.
Event Code	7000recu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000recu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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