Within 300 km
Earthquakes near Lae
Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea · population 76,255. Every earthquake within 300 km since 1900.
Past 30 days10M2.5+ within 300 km
Past year159M2.5+
Since 19003,740M4.5+, 169 of them M6+
How often M6+0.7 yraverage gap between M6+ quakes
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Magnitude 4.5+ per year since 1900
Within 300 km of Lae. Small quakes were rarely recorded worldwide before the 1970s, so early years show fewer.
The strongest on record
- 8.0 1906 Papua New Guinea Earthquake Sep 14, 1906
- 7.6 38 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Oct 2, 1906
- 7.6 70 km E of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea Sep 10, 2022
- 7.6 48 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea May 12, 1938
- 7.5 49 km WSW of Wau, Papua New Guinea Feb 26, 1963
- 7.4 92 km WSW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea May 6, 1947
- 7.4 54 km W of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea Oct 16, 1987
- 7.4 54 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Feb 8, 1987
- 7.2 117 km N of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Dec 22, 1997
- 7.2 61 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea May 15, 1992
The latest nearby
- 5.1 97 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Oct 30, 2026
- 5.2 63 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea Oct 25, 2026
- 4.4 19 km N of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Oct 23, 2026
- 4.2 25 km S of Goroka, Papua New Guinea Oct 20, 2026
- 4.8 31 km SE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea Oct 18, 2026
- 4.4 34 km SW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea Oct 10, 2026
- 4.0 44 km W of Madang, Papua New Guinea Oct 6, 2026
- 4.9 25 km NE of Lae, Papua New Guinea Oct 4, 2026
- 4.6 79 km NNE of Lae, Papua New Guinea Oct 3, 2026
- 4.4 117 km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Oct 3, 2026
- 4.2 34 km SW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea Sep 30, 2026
- 5.3 69 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Sep 24, 2026
- 4.5 50 km ESE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Sep 23, 2026
- 4.3 125 km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea Sep 22, 2026
- 5.4 60 km NE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea Sep 20, 2026