M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jan 2016 23:46 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 1079693
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.8743 , 147.1826
Event Date: 30 Jan 2016 23:46 UTC
31 Jan 2016 09:46 Local
Exposed Population:
About 36023 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2016 00:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),