M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Dec 2016 22:38 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 1101956
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8474 , 153.6265
Event Date: 27 Dec 2016 22:38 UTC
28 Dec 2016 08:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2016 23:02 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007n3n Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),