Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 114 kilometers (71 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:47:10 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/25 / 2025-04-12 03:47:10 / April 12, 2025 @ 3:47 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q5ka. Unique identifier: us6000q5ka. Exact location of event, longitude 153.2351 East, latitude -4.7144 South, depth = 72.502 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.502 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 115 km (71 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km ESE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.2351° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.7144° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.502 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114 km ESE of Kokopo, 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	2025-04-12 03:47:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-12 04:06:31	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	591	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	100	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.188	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us6000q5ka	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q5ka	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q5ka,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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