A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:05:29 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pdqh. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdqh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/02/25 / 2025-02-07 06:05:29 / February 7, 2025 @ 6:05 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 152.908 East, latitude -4.2742 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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