M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Aug 2025 14:16 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 1493394
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 464.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.5765 , 151.3367
Event Date: 01 Aug 2025 14:16 UTC
02 Aug 2025 00:16 Local
Exposed Population:
160 thousand in MMI I
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2025 00:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qxap 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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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),