M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jul 2025 16:37 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 1491827
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 115.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.2783 , 143.6306
Event Date: 24 Jul 2025 16:37 UTC
25 Jul 2025 02:37 Local
Exposed Population: 110 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2025 16:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qun0 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),