M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Dec 2017 23:55 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 1129779
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 95.82 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.481 , 150.8454
Event Date: 29 Dec 2017 23:55 UTC
30 Dec 2017 09:55 Local
Exposed Population: 160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2017 00:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000bxyn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),