M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Jun 2022 09:09 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 1326569
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 178.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5123 , 147.1108
Event Date: 14 Jun 2022 09:09 UTC
14 Jun 2022 19:09 Local
Exposed Population: 120 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2022 09:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hh98 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (7 - 13 Ju ... 2022-06-15T02:05+0200.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA. On 6 June, clashes broke out between Ombal and Ukiam community members in Komo/Margarima District, Hela Province. The fighting lasts 6 days and displaced an estimated 3,000 people, and resulted in the death of at least 3 c
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Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake - Near Puerto Moresby, National Capital D ... 2022-06-14T11:39+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),