M 6.9 in Papua New Guinea on 04 Apr 2025 20:04 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 1475806
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3171 , 151.5922
Event Date: 04 Apr 2025 20:04 UTC
05 Apr 2025 06:04 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2025 21:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.6 0.6
us6000q41n Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.69m  
  C1 rapid impact 0 Max wave realtime 0.69m  
  C2 rapid impact 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),