Very Strong Mag. 6.3 Earthquake - Bismarck Sea, 185 km North of Madang, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:45 pm (GMT +10)

Very strong mag. 6.3 earthquake - Near N. Coast of New Guinea, PNG., Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, 7 February 2021 at 05:45 (GMT) - information

Very strong mag. 6.3 earthquake - Bismarck Sea, 185 km north of Madang, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:45 pm (GMT +10)

Very strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake at 10 km depth

7 Feb 05:54 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 8 minutes.
7 Feb 05:55: Magnitude recalculated from 6.0 to 6.1. Epicenter location corrected by 3.1 km (2 mi) towards SW.
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7 Feb 06:11: Magnitude recalculated from 6.4 to 6.3.

Date & time: Feb 7, 2021 05:45:55 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:45 pm (GMT +10)
Magnitude: 6.3
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 3.56°S / 145.92°E

(Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea)
Antipode: 3.56°N / 34.08°W
Nearest volcano: unnamed (91 km / 57 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
185 km (115 mi) N of Madang (pop: 27,400) --> See nearby quakes!
227 km (141 mi) SW of Lorengau (Manus District) (pop: 5,810) --> See nearby quakes!
254 km (158 mi) E of Wewak (pop: 18,200) --> See nearby quakes!
287 km (178 mi) N of Goroka (pop: 18,500) --> See nearby quakes!
293 km (182 mi) NNE of Kundiawa (pop: 9,380) --> See nearby quakes!
304 km (189 mi) N of Kainantu (pop: 8,510) --> See nearby quakes!
317 km (197 mi) NE of Hagen (Dei District) (pop: 33,600) --> See nearby quakes!
371 km (231 mi) NNW of Lae (pop: 76,300) --> See nearby quakes!
382 km (237 mi) NE of Mendi (pop: 26,300) --> See nearby quakes!
672 km (418 mi) NNW of Puerto Moresby (pop: 283,700) --> See nearby quakes!

Weather at epicenter at time of quake:
Light Rain

29°C (84 F), humidity: 71%, wind: 2 m/s (5 kts) from WNW

Primary data source: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Estimated released energy: 1.8 x 10¹⁴ joules (49.4 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 42502 tons of TNT or 2.7 atomic bombs!) | about seismic energy

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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

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Mag.	Depth	Location	Source
6.3	10 km	Near N. Coast of New Guinea, PNG., Papua New Guinea	GFZ
5.7	33 km	Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea	BMKG
6.3	51 km	6.0 BISMARCK SEA, Papua New Guinea	EMSC
6.2	10.2 km	Papua New Guinea [Sea]	INGV
6.0	18 km	Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea	GeoAu
6.3	10 km	Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea	USGS

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Port Moresby / not felt : p | 2 users found this interesting.

Bialla (621.4 km ESE of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV)

Waila City (3896.6 km ESE of epicenter) [Map] / not felt

I did not tell you the t to see you tomorrow and t (6857 km NW of epicenter) [Map] / not felt

Kerema, Gulf province / not felt : It was a normal Sunday 7th February morning..I did not feel any sign or movement of the earth.

Port Moresby / not felt

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Aftershocks

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Recorded aftershocks, latest first (15 quakes)

Date and time	Mag Depth	Location	Details
Aug 5, 2021 19:51 41 weeks ago	4.8 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 196 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Jul 19, 2021 20:30 44 weeks ago	5.8 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 228 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Jul 19, 2021 20:24 44 weeks ago	4.6 110 km	Bismarck Sea, 206 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Jul 19, 2021 20:00 44 weeks ago	4.7 93 km	Bismarck Sea, 154 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Jul 18, 2021 09:35 44 weeks ago	5.0 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 175 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Jun 3, 2021 15:32 51 weeks ago	4.6 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 232 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Jun 1, 2021 21:41 51 weeks ago	4.7 53 km	Bismarck Sea, 157 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 27, 2021 15:01 1 year 4 weeks ago	4.6 57 km	Bismarck Sea, 134 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 27, 2021 11:04 1 year 4 weeks ago	5.5 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 199 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 27, 2021 10:40 1 year 4 weeks ago - felt	5.2 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 202 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 27, 2021 08:05 1 year 4 weeks ago	6.1 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 195 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 27, 2021 08:03 1 year 4 weeks ago	5.0 27 km	Bismarck Sea, 200 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 27, 2021 02:12 1 year 4 weeks ago	5.6 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 208 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 10, 2021 12:27 1 year 6 weeks ago	4.6 118 km	Bismarck Sea, 162 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More
Apr 10, 2021 11:38 1 year 6 weeks ago - felt	6.1 10 km	Bismarck Sea, 196 km N of Madang, Papua New Guinea	More

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