M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Jan 2019 18:37 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 1168490
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 44.93 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7043 , 142.2234
Event Date: 19 Jan 2019 18:37 UTC
20 Jan 2019 04:37 Local
Exposed Population:
330000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2019 18:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j6ez Scaled population (vector) 5.21  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 65 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

EARTHQUAKE HITS PAPUA NEW GUINEA, NO CASUALTIES REPORTEDMon, 21 Jan 2019 20:10:00 +0100.

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (April 6, 1999 - Radio Australia/PIDP/CPIS)---A major earthquake, measuring between 6.9 and 7.4 on the Richter scale, struck Papua New Guinea Monday, but there were no reports of serious damage or injury. Offi
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Advierte agencia de meteorología de Indonesia sobre desastres naturale ... Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:14:00 +0100.

Yakarta (VNA) - La Agencia de Meteorología, Climatología y Geofísica (BMKG), de Indonesia, advirtió sobre posibles desastres naturales como inundaciones, deslizamientos de tierra y torbellinos, mientras el país del Sudeste Asiático está ent
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Indonesia meteorology agency warns natural disasters in rainy seasonFri, 18 Jan 2019 05:53:00 +0100.

Jakarta (VNA) – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) of Indonesia has warned of potential natural disasters such as floods, landslides and whirlwinds as the Southeast Asian country is entering the peak of the rainy se
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Papua New GuineaThu, 17 Jan 2019 05:36:00 +0100.

was on 26 February 2018 hit by a 7.5M earthquake that displaced 58,292 people (11,761 households) in the Southern Highlands, Hela and Western provinces. IOM worked closely with the government at both the national and sub-national levels to
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),