M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 21 Jan 2017 01:52 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 1103711
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3337 , 152.3801
Event Date: 21 Jan 2017 01:52 UTC
21 Jan 2017 11:52 Local
Exposed Population:
About 38000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2017 02:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ukd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),