M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Sep 2020 15:38 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 1235518
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.8142 , 150.3378
Event Date: 15 Sep 2020 15:38 UTC
16 Sep 2020 01:38 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2020 16:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bnj2 Scaled population (vector) 3.73  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),