Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 17 Nov 2021 07:39 UTC

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M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Nov 2021 07:39 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 1297185
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	87 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.5807 , 153.5321
Event Date:	17 Nov 2021 07:39 UTC 17 Nov 2021 17:39 Local
Exposed Population:	30 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	17 Nov 2021 14:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000fusj	Scaled population (vector)	3.96
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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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),

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