A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/25 / 2025-12-16 15:49:24 / December 16, 2025 @ 3:49 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.5823 East, latitude -6.9739 South, depth = 35 km. 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: us6000rva4. Unique identifier: us6000rva4. The temblor was picked up at 15:49:24 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arawa (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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