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Significant magnitude 5.5 quake hits 135 km southwest of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea in the morning

Published: 21 December 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 23:28 | 50 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor

Just 20 minutes ago, a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Kokopo, Kokopo District, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Monday, December 22nd, 2025, at 9:07 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.
A second report was later issued by France’s Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS), which listed it as a magnitude 5.1 earthquake. Other agencies reporting the same quake include the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 5.3, and the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 5.4.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Kokopo (pop. 26,300) located 135 km from the epicenter.
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