M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Apr 2025 04:01 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 1479415
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 60.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2491 , 149.9707
Event Date: 29 Apr 2025 04:01 UTC
29 Apr 2025 14:01 Local
Exposed Population:
120 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2025 04:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pvqh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

5.0-magnitude quake hits New Britain region, Papua New Guinea: GFZ 5/2/2025 1:31:00 AM.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted New Britain region, Papua New Guinea, at 20:23:03 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was ini
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5.0-magnitude quake hits New Britain region, Papua New Guinea: GFZ 5/2/2025 1:29:00 AM.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted New Britain region, Papua New Guinea, at 20:23:03 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was ini
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Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake - Western Province, 59 km southwest of Ta.. 5/1/2025 10:01:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tari , a town with 8,200 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 59 km (37 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there
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5.0-magnitude quake hits New Britain region, Papua New Guinea: GFZ 5/1/2025 9:04:00 PM.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),