M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Dec 2019 22:23 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 1195981
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.2009 , 150.7611
Event Date: 03 Dec 2019 22:23 UTC
04 Dec 2019 08:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
About 66000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2019 01:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60006lsm Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 27 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Strong quake hits eastern Indonesia; no tsunami warningSun, 24 Nov 2019 04:43:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong and shallow earthquake hit Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region on Saturday, but the epicenter was far from populated areas and there was no risk of a tsunami, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said th
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Strong quake hits eastern Indonesia; no tsunami warningSat, 23 Nov 2019 19:22:00 +0100.

A strong and shallow earthquake hit Indonesia's easternmost Papua region on Saturday, but the epicenter was far from populated areas and there was no risk of a tsunami, officials said. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.1 quake s
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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 23Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:48:00 +0100.

MOSCOW -- Moscow is open for constructive cooperation with Washington on the basis of mutual respect for each other's interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday. The minister held talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Sta
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Strong quake hits eastern Indonesia; no tsunami warningSat, 23 Nov 2019 16:34:00 +0100.

Jakarta: A strong and shallow earthquake hit Indonesia's easternmost Papua region on Saturday, but the epicenter was far from populated areas and there was no risk of a tsunami, officials said. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 6
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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),