Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Unique identifier: us6000phc9. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000phc9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/25 / 2025-01-03 01:47:28 / January 3, 2025 @ 1:47 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 151.772° East, -3.7984° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:47:28 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kokopo, Rabaul (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km NW of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.772° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.7984° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 km NW of Rabaul, 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	2025-01-03 01:47:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-03 02:05:57	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	449	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	97	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.552	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us6000phc9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000phc9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000phc9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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