M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jan 2020 22:38 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 1204387
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.4328 , 146.1843
Event Date: 30 Jan 2020 22:38 UTC
31 Jan 2020 08:38 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2020 22:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007kv1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 18 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Oil Search : restores key infrastructure for communitiesThu, 30 Jan 2020 07:34:00 +0100.

Oil Search restores key infrastructure for communities. Media Release. Thursday, 30 January 2020. Oil Search has completed the repair and restoration of damaged sections of roads and bridges in Kutubu and surrounding areas, caused by the 20
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Earthquakes today: Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Greece hit by huge qu ... Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:02:00 +0100.

One area still reeling from a huge earthquake is Turkey which on Friday, January 24 was hit by a magnitude-6.7 quake. This killed at least 38 people and injured more than 1,600 when it hit 21 miles from Elazig. Buildings crumbled into rubbl
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12:13 Strong earthquake shakes IndonesiaSun, 19 Jan 2020 18:37:00 +0100.

19 de enero de 2020, 12:13 Jakarta, Jan 19 (Prensa Latina) An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 shook on Sunday Papua province, on Indonesia's New Guinea island, but local authorities indicated that no fatalities, injuries or serious damage have
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Terremoto de 6,1 grados estremece provincia indonesia de PapúaSun, 19 Jan 2020 12:45:00 +0100.

Según un funcionario de la Agencia nacional de Meteorología, Climatología y Geofísica, el epicentro del sismo se encontró a 158 kilómetros al noroeste de Jayapura, cabecera de Papúa , y a una profundidad de 34 kilómetros Sin embargo, remarc
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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),