M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 21 Sep 2017 14:10 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 1122006
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 143.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3996 , 150.7163
Event Date: 21 Sep 2017 14:10 UTC
22 Sep 2017 00:10 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2017 16:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000asgl Scaled population (vector) 5.32  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),