M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Nov 2021 20:22 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 1298489
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 64.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1122 , 149.1116
Event Date: 25 Nov 2021 20:22 UTC
26 Nov 2021 06:22 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 01 Dec 2021 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fx37 Scaled population (vector) 5.12  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),