Strong earthquake: M6.5 quake has struck near Goroka in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Goroka in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rwgh. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rwgh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.18 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:31:28 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/25 / 2025-12-22 10:31:28 / December 22, 2025 @ 10:31 am. Exact location of earthquake, 145.4955° East, -5.7199° South, depth 110.18 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kainantu, Kundiawa, Madang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Goroka (c. 18 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kundiawa (c. 9 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kainantu (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km NNE of Goroka, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.4955° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.7199° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km NNE of Goroka, 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	2025-12-22 10:31:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-22 10:47:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	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	651	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.015	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rwgh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rwgh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rwgh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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