M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jan 2025 18:26 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 1463775
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.9136 , 150.7678
Event Date: 24 Jan 2025 18:26 UTC
25 Jan 2025 04:26 Local
Exposed Population: 2 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2025 18:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

Created with Highcharts 6.2.0000123
For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pm5y Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
  • OpenStreetMap
    The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.
200 km
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Latest media headlines

Moderate mag. 4.6 earthquake - Papua New Guinea: New Britain Region, P.. 1/27/2025 6:36:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kokopo , a town with 26,000 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 160 km (99 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there
...(more)
Moderate mag. 4.3 earthquake - Near North Coast of Papua New Guinea on.. 1/27/2025 1:34:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Jayapura , a city with more than 400,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 42 km (26 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there.
...(more)
Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - West Sepik, Papua New Guinea, on Monday.. 1/26/2025 7:38:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Jayapura , a city with more than 400,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 41 km (26 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking t
...(more)
Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake - Near North Coast of Papua New Guinea on.. 1/25/2025 11:39:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Vanimo , a town with 11,000 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 63 km (39 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there.
...(more)

View more news

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Created with Highcharts 6.2.0PopulationPopulation near epicentersource JRC100 km75 km50 km20 km10 km5 km2 km05001000

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),