M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 13 Apr 2025 03:48 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 1477008
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 65.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7259 , 147.4178
Event Date: 13 Apr 2025 03:48 UTC
13 Apr 2025 13:48 Local
Exposed Population: 380 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 13 Apr 2025 04:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000q5q0 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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Exposed population

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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),