A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Lae in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/10/25 / 2025-10-09 22:06:48 / October 9, 2025 @ 10:06 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rke2. Id of event: us6000rke2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.303 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 48.303 km, 147.1783° East, -6.5066° South. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:06:48 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lae. Country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Lae (c. 76 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 31 km NE of Lae, Papua New Guinea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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