M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 09 Jul 2026 22:11 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 1551046
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 78.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.9931 , 155.5289
Event Date: 09 Jul 2026 22:11 UTC
10 Jul 2026 09:11 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 Jul 2026 00:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000szb1 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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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),