Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 49 km SE of Lae, Papua New Guinea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. Id of earthquake: us7000pfgg. Event ids that are associated: us7000pfgg. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/25 / 2025-02-22 14:16:16 / February 22, 2025 @ 2:16 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:16:16 / 2:16 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 earthquake, 147.3698° East, -6.9748° South, depth 61.524 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 61.524 km (38 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bulolo, Wau, Lae (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bulolo (c. 16 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Wau (c. 14 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.3698° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.9748° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	61.524 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 km SE 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	2025-02-22 14:16:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-22 14:32:41	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	326	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.423	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us7000pfgg	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pfgg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pfgg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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