M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 15 May 2021 20:13 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 1268905
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 48.19 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.0709 , 153.1863
Event Date: 15 May 2021 20:13 UTC
16 May 2021 06:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2021 21:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e3fr Scaled population (vector) 3.53  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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PNG: Magnitude-5.3 earthquake occurs south of Kokopo at around 17:28 M ... Sun, 16 May 2021 10:20:00 +0200.

Event. A magnitude-5.3 earthquake occurred on New Ireland island of Papua New Guinea at 17:28 May 16 The epicenter was about 138 km (86 miles) south-southwest of Kokopo. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 35 km (22 miles), and weak-to-
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Significant earthquake of magnitude 5.2 just reported 69 km southwest ... Thu, 13 May 2021 13:59:00 +0200.

An intermediate magnitude 5.2 earthquake was reported in the evening near Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Thursday 13 May 2021 at 9:32 pm
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Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - Near Kainantu, Eastern Highlands Provin ... Thu, 13 May 2021 13:59:00 +0200.

An intermediate magnitude 5.2 earthquake was reported in the evening near Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Thursday 13 May 2021 at 9:32 pm
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Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.3 earthquake 88 km east of Kimbe, Papua ... Tue, 11 May 2021 18:04:00 +0200.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Kimbe, Talasea District, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 11 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies tha
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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),