Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 25 Feb 2026 11:14 UTC

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M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Feb 2026 11:14 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1526178
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	72.1 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.2615 , 145.9051
Event Date:	25 Feb 2026 11:14 UTC 25 Feb 2026 21:14 Local
Exposed Population:	10 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at:	25 Feb 2026 11:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000s06i	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),

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