M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Nov 2020 04:42 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 1245157
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 50.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6317 , 144.8107
Event Date: 26 Nov 2020 04:42 UTC
26 Nov 2020 14:42 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Nov 2020 15:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cjy5 Scaled population (vector) 5.62  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

World Earthquake Report for Saturday, 28 November 2020Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:27:00 +0100.

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Mag. 4.0 earthquake - Provincia del Tamarugal, Tarapaca, 1 km northwes ... Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:37:00 +0100.

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Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes near Mount Hagen, Papua New GuineaThu, 26 Nov 2020 05:57:00 +0100.

5.1 quake 26 Nov 2:42 pm (GMT +10) An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 occurred only 12 minutes ago 162 km northeast of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of
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Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake - Ambok, 6.9 km south of Wadaginum, Madan ... Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:57:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 occurred only 12 minutes ago 162 km northeast of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near A
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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),