M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Jun 2026 14:21 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 1544930
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 154.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.4318 , 144.3895
Event Date: 08 Jun 2026 14:21 UTC
09 Jun 2026 00:21 Local
Exposed Population:
340 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 08 Jun 2026 14:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000srgy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Tsunami warnings issued across several Asian countries after powerful .. 6/8/2026 4:20:00 PM.

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),