Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Vanimo in Papua New Guinea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Vanimo in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:09:56 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.6313° East, latitude -2.8226° South, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 17:09:56 / February 6, 2025 @ 5:09 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pbu3. Id of event: us7000pbu3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aitape, Vanimo, Vanimo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Aitape (c. 5 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 39 km ESE of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.6313° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.8226° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km ESE 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	2025-02-06 17:09:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-06 17:28:01	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.976	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us7000pbu3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbu3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbu3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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