A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Kokoda in Papua New Guinea. Global time and date of event 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 19:51:16 / December 6, 2025 @ 7:51 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rsxv. Id of event: us6000rsxv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.385 km (19 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:51:16 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 30.385 km, 147.8776° East, -8.7344° South.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Popondetta, Kokoda (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Popondetta (c. 28 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Kokoda (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 22 km NE of Kokoda, Papua New Guinea.
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