M5.0 Earthquake Recorded Near New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.0 near New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea, with a 48.9 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-07T07:12:51.506Z

The event began at Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:45:29 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.0, 48.9 km catalog depth, and coordinates -4.261, 152.645.

The catalog location label is New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.00e+12 joules, or about 477 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

GEOFON GFZ has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.