M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Dec 2020 06:23 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 1249468
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 76.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4944 , 154.6471
Event Date: 29 Dec 2020 06:23 UTC
29 Dec 2020 16:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2020 06:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d3x8 Scaled population (vector) 4.02  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 29 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

PNG: Magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake occurred off Bougainville Islan ... Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:34:00 +0100.

Magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake strikes off Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, at 1723 BST Dec. 29. No immediate reports of damage.
Significant magnitude 5.1 earthquake 106 km southwest of Arawa, Papua ... Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:17:00 +0100.

5.1 quake 29 Dec 5:23 pm (GMT +11) A magnitude 5.1 earthquake near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, was reported 40 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that
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Light 4.9 quake hits near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New GuineaTue, 29 Dec 2020 07:46:00 +0100.

4.9 quake 29 Dec 5:13 pm (GMT +11) A magnitude 4.9 earthquake near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 25 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), considered one of the key international agencies that
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Light magnitude 4.8 quake hits 110 km southwest of Arawa, Papua New Gu ... Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:10:00 +0100.

4.8 quake 29 Dec 10:34 am (GMT +11) Just 20 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Tuesday 29 December 2020 at 10:34 am local time, at an intermed
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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),