M 6.7 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Oct 2025 11:05 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 1503920
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 107.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.738 , 146.786
Event Date: 07 Oct 2025 11:05 UTC
07 Oct 2025 21:05 Local
Exposed Population: 420 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 07 Oct 2025 11:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
PTWC 1.5 0 1.5
pt25280001 Scaled population (vector) 3.37 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.3      
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Papua New Guinea - Earthquake (ECHO 13 Oct 2025)Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:00

  • A 6.6 M earthquake occurred in Morobe Province, central-eastern Papua New Guinea, on 7 October at 11.05 (UTC) (21.05 local time). The epicentre was located 26 km west-southwest of Lae city, the capital of Morobe province.
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 246,000 people were exposed to strong shaking.
  • According to media, there are no immediate reports of casualties and damage.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (90), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),