M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 16 Sep 2025 16:59 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 1500472
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 41 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4051 , 153.825
Event Date: 16 Sep 2025 16:59 UTC
17 Sep 2025 02:59 Local
Exposed Population: 80 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2025 21:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qwir Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

6.1 quake hits Central Papua, says USGS 9/19/2025 11:40:00 PM.

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, with no initial reports of casualties. The USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was located 28km south of the town of
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6.1 Magnitude quake hits Indonesia''s Central Papua 9/19/2025 2:01:00 PM.

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, with no initial reports of casualties. The USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was located 28 kilometres
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Quake rattles Indonesia’s Central Papua: 6.1 magnitude tremor damages .. 9/19/2025 6:47:00 AM.

JAKARTA, Sept 19 — A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, with no initial reports of casualties. The USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was loca
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6.1-magnitude quake hits Indonesia’s Central Papua 9/19/2025 6:20:00 AM.

Indonesia, a vast archipelagic nation, has experienced frequent earthquakes due to its position on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’. (AP pic) The USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was located 28 km south of the town of Nabire in the Central P
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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),