M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jan 2021 13:29 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 1253799
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 129.72 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7927 , 148.4892
Event Date: 30 Jan 2021 13:29 UTC
30 Jan 2021 23:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 61000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2021 15:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dd8q Scaled population (vector) 5.02  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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Behind Indonesia’s natural disastersFri, 29 Jan 2021 02:43:00 +0100.

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5.0-magnitude quake hits 159 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea -- USGSThu, 28 Jan 2021 10:54:00 +0100.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted 159 km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea, at 06:03:22 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said

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Exposed population

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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),