M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Feb 2025 02:49 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 1469046
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.0615 , 152.799
Event Date: 19 Feb 2025 02:49 UTC
19 Feb 2025 12:49 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2025 03:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000penh Scaled population (raster) 1.34  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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),