M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 21 May 2024 03:35 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 1429652
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 49.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2946 , 147.3122
Event Date: 21 May 2024 03:35 UTC
21 May 2024 13:35 Local
Exposed Population: 310 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 May 2024 05:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mzyf 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, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 31 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 1

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Moderate mag. 4.2 earthquake - 211 km west of Jayapura, Jayapura, Papu ... 2024-05-24T21:42+0200.

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Strong mag. 5.2 earthquake - New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea, on ... 2024-05-24T18:08+0200.

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