A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/25 / 2025-02-23 01:40:02 / February 23, 2025 @ 1:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pwt8. Id of event: us6000pwt8. The temblor was detected at 01:40:02 / 1:40 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 65.052 km (40 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 155.5467° East, -7.038° South, depth 65.052 km.
Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 80 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea.
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