M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Apr 2026 21:46 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 1535942
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 94.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9581 , 148.5128
Event Date: 17 Apr 2026 21:46 UTC
18 Apr 2026 07:46 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2026 22:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000sqz1 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

5.3-magnitude quake hits New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea -- GFZ 4/18/2026 1:25:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea, at 2146 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially
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5.3-magnitude quake hits New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea -- GFZ 4/18/2026 1:24:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea, at 2146 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially
...(more)
5.3-magnitude quake hits New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea -- GFZ 4/17/2026 10:23:00 PM.

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.
5.3-magnitude quake hits New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea -- GFZ 4/17/2026 10:22:00 PM.

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea, at 2146 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially
...(more)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),