A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Madang in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.5336 East, latitude -5.5988 South, depth = 125.783 km. Unique identifier: us6000q4k3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q4k3. Global time and date of event 28/03/25 / 2025-03-28 13:25:10 / March 28, 2025 @ 1:25 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 125.783 km (78 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:25:10 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Madang. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Madang (c. 27 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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