Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 10 Oct 2025 02:08 UTC

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M 6.3 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Oct 2025 02:08 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 1504270
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.0262 , 147.9689
Event Date:	10 Oct 2025 02:08 UTC 10 Oct 2025 12:08 Local
Exposed Population:	2 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at:	10 Oct 2025 03:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0		0
us6000rfye	Scaled population (raster)	0	Max wave alert	0.07m
	C1 shakemap	0	Max wave realtime	0.07m
	C2 shakemap	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 (92), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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