M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Dec 2021 03:44 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 1302084
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 79.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.9084 , 153.5576
Event Date: 17 Dec 2021 03:44 UTC
17 Dec 2021 13:44 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2021 04:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gd0q Scaled population (vector) 3.44  
  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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),