M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 21 Feb 2026 06:18 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 1525512
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 71.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3681 , 145.8345
Event Date: 21 Feb 2026 06:18 UTC
21 Feb 2026 16:18 Local
Exposed Population: 690 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2026 06:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000saks Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),