M 4.8 in New Ireland Region, P.N.G. on 17 Sep 2022 23:29 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 1338166
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 217.506 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.7446 , 153.9253
Event Date: 17 Sep 2022 23:29 UTC
18 Sep 2022 10:29 Local
Exposed Population:
90 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2022 23:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i8xn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),