M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Jul 2025 20:51 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 1491133
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 55.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8734 , 152.3768
Event Date: 20 Jul 2025 20:51 UTC
21 Jul 2025 06:51 Local
Exposed Population:
240 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2025 12:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qe4e 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Papua New Guinea, GFZ says 7/24/2025 5:44:00 PM.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 magnitude struck New Guinea in Papua New Guinea on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake hit at a depth of 110 km (68.35 miles), according to GFZ. Reuters.
Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake Jolts New Guinea 7/24/2025 5:08:00 PM.

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, on Friday. The German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that the quake occurred at a depth of 110 kilometers. Authorities are assessing the impact and any potential need
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Terremoto di Magnitudo 5,9 Colpisce la Papua Nuova Guinea, Secondo il .. 7/24/2025 5:01:00 PM.

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Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.8 quake hits 97 km south of Wewak, Papua.. 7/24/2025 4:59:00 PM.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported a magnitude 5.8 quake in Papua New Guinea near Wewak, Wewak District, East Sepik Province, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Friday, July 25th, 2025, at 2
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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),