M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 31 Jan 2018 11:49 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 1132614
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 74.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.9339 , 147.218
Event Date: 31 Jan 2018 11:49 UTC
31 Jan 2018 21:49 Local
Exposed Population: 410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2018 12:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000crq6 Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 194 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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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),