Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 18 May 2025 16:51 UTC

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M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 18 May 2025 16:51 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 1482284
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	76.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.2117 , 147.6192
Event Date:	18 May 2025 16:51 UTC 19 May 2025 02:51 Local
Exposed Population:	2 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	18 May 2025 17:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000q01k	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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