Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Lae in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea on Monday. Exact location, longitude 147.0196° East, latitude -6.2073° South, depth = 82.174 km. Global time and date of event 13/01/25 / 2025-01-13 07:08:05 / January 13, 2025 @ 7:08 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:08:05 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000pjn2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pjn2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.174 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.0196° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.2073° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	82.174 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 km N of Lae, 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	2025-01-13 07:08:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-13 07:33:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	385	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	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.18	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us6000pjn2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pjn2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pjn2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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