Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Vanimo in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.993 km (17 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000pk28. Event ids that are associated: us6000pk28. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/01/25 / 2025-01-15 02:08:41 / January 15, 2025 @ 2:08 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:08:41 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.4749° East, latitude -2.8196° South, depth = 26.993 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Jayapura, Vanimo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km SE of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.4749° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.8196° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.993 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km SE of Vanimo, 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	2025-01-15 02:08:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-15 02:36:37	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	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.828	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us6000pk28	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pk28	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pk28,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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