M 5.7 in New Britain Region, P.N.G. on 16 May 2019 01:23 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 1179594
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 25.33 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2257 , 152.6189
Event Date: 16 May 2019 01:23 UTC
16 May 2019 11:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 42000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 May 2019 01:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003ly5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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14 May 2019-Strong Earthquake in P.N.G Region at 14 May 2019 on 08.58p ... Tue, 14 May 2019 16:14:00 +0200.

JMM/POCGN(O)/BK-23A Ruj. Kami: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.15(97) SIARAN MEDIA Gempa Bumi Kuat di New Britain Region, P.N.G. Gempa bumi kuat bermagnitud 7.4 pada skala Richter telah berlaku di New Britain Region, P.N.G. pada pukul 8:58 malam, 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),