M4.5 earthquake 106 km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 106 km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea on Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 5:54 PM GMT+10 (07:54 UTC), 128 km (80 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 53 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-02-14 07:54:56 UTC
- Depth
- 128.4 km (79.8 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 5.762° S, 146.995° E
- Region
- Papua New Guinea
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.3 km horizontally, 8.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 48°
- Stations used
- 37
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 7 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4109 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea · 2785 days ago · 157 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.853 km E of Madang, Papua New Guinea · 2771 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.4132 km ESE of Madang, Papua New Guinea · 2756 days ago · 205 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.181 km N of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea · 2754 days ago · 116 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.089 km NE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea · 2744 days ago · 73 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.7126 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea · 2740 days ago · 194 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.6123 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea · 2735 days ago · 179 km deep · 64 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000jhtb. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 8:51 AM UTC.