M 6.5 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Dec 2025 10:31 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 1516247
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 110.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7199 , 145.4955
Event Date: 22 Dec 2025 10:31 UTC
22 Dec 2025 20:31 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2025 10:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000rwgh Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Papua New Guinea - Earthquake (ECHO 25 Dec 2025)Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:08

  • A 6.6 M earthquake at a depth of 110 km struck southern Madang Province, northern Papua New Guinea, on 22 December 2023 at 10:31 UTC (20:31 local time, UTC+10). The epicentre was located 41 km north of Goroka town.
  • According to USGS PAGER, up to 2 000 people were exposed to strong shaking, while 893 000 people experienced moderate shaking.
  • According to media, no immediate casualties or damage have been recorded.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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),