M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 05 Oct 2025 19:23 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 1503678
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.8968 , 151.3282
Event Date: 05 Oct 2025 19:23 UTC
06 Oct 2025 05:23 Local
Exposed Population:
4 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 Oct 2025 19:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rezl 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Phivolcs urges strict compliance to building safety standards 10/9/2025 4:37:00 PM.

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA-LAE-EARTHQUAKE 10/9/2025 6:40:00 AM.

(251007) -- LAE, Oct. 7, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken with a mobile phone on Oct. 7, 2025 shows goods fallen from shelves at a supermarket after an earthquake in Lae, Papua New Guinea. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 jolted 21 km
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Filipinos marked safe from blizzard, quake overseas 10/9/2025 2:04:00 AM.

This handout image taken on October 5, 2025 and received on October 6 courtesy of FeiFei shows hikers amid deep snow at Tangxiang camp in the Karma Valley, at the foot of Everest in Tibet at an altitude of nearly 5,000 metres, following a s
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Papua New Guinea earthquake, magnitude 6.7: Filipinos safe, says DFA 10/8/2025 7:45:00 PM.

MANILA, Philippines The Philippines is closely monitoring the situation of Filipinos in Papua New Guinea after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck its second largest city Lae on Oct. 7. In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of Foreign A
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),