M 5.4 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Aug 2026 11:10 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 1558375
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 120.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.411 , 143.9212
Event Date: 15 Aug 2026 11:10 UTC
15 Aug 2026 21:10 Local
Exposed Population: 200 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2026 11:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000tkyz Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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Latest media headlines

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Unshaken: Papua New Guinea''s Resilience Amid Earthquake 8/15/2026 11:27:00 AM.

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),