M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Sep 2020 16:55 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 1236117
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.6131 , 153.8302
Event Date: 20 Sep 2020 16:55 UTC
21 Sep 2020 02:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bqik Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),