M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Jan 2017 04:44 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 1103787
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7433 , 153.5736
Event Date: 22 Jan 2017 04:44 UTC
22 Jan 2017 14:44 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2017 06:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007upq 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),