M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Nov 2021 01:44 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 1298652
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 37.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6743 , 151.4818
Event Date: 27 Nov 2021 01:44 UTC
27 Nov 2021 11:44 Local
Exposed Population:
80 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2021 02:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fxdh Scaled population (vector) 5.13  
  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

Data, images, links, services and documents

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),