M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Jul 2019 20:43 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 1184039
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 59.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0086 , 149.5069
Event Date: 20 Jul 2019 20:43 UTC
21 Jul 2019 06:43 Local
Exposed Population: 130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2019 20:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70004psn Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 124 | About casualties: 40 | 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),