M 6.6 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Oct 2025 11:05 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 1503920
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 99.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7837 , 146.767
Event Date: 07 Oct 2025 11:05 UTC
07 Oct 2025 21:05 Local
Exposed Population: 190 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 07 Oct 2025 11:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000rfb2 Scaled population (raster) 1.11 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.3      
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Papua New Guinea - Earthquake (ECHO 13 Oct 2025)Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:00

  • A 6.6 M earthquake occurred in Morobe Province, central-eastern Papua New Guinea, on 7 October at 11.05 (UTC) (21.05 local time). The epicentre was located 26 km west-southwest of Lae city, the capital of Morobe province.
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 246,000 people were exposed to strong shaking.
  • According to media, there are no immediate reports of casualties and damage.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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 (92), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),