M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Aug 2021 12:01 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 1279959
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.5033 , 148.1225
Event Date: 03 Aug 2021 12:01 UTC
03 Aug 2021 22:01 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2021 12:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f1tx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 51 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake near Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 19 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. Th
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),