M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Jan 2021 11:49 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 1251011
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 51.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.14 , 153.4428
Event Date: 10 Jan 2021 11:49 UTC
10 Jan 2021 21:49 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2021 12:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d78b Scaled population (vector) 2.97  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 24 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Mag. 4.5 earthquake - Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on Sunday, 10 January 202 ... Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:36:00 +0100.

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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),