Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 27 Nov 2021 20:36 UTC

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M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Nov 2021 20:36 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 1298775
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-9.3079 , 148.1673
Event Date:	27 Nov 2021 20:36 UTC 28 Nov 2021 06:36 Local
Exposed Population:	280 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	27 Nov 2021 21:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000fxjx	Scaled population (vector)	5.26
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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