M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Apr 2025 15:49 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 1477381
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 79.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5082 , 154.9681
Event Date: 15 Apr 2025 15:49 UTC
16 Apr 2025 02:49 Local
Exposed Population:
120 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2025 16:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000q65u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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5.1-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea, no tsunami warning 4/18/2025 9:02:00 AM.

SYDNEY, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 181 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea, at 0724 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at
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5.1-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea, no tsunami warning 4/18/2025 8:48:00 AM.

SYDNEY: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 181 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea, at 0724 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 6.212 degrees south
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),