M 5.9 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Nov 2023 04:51 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 1400488
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.625 , 151.3248
Event Date: 12 Nov 2023 04:51 UTC
12 Nov 2023 14:51 Local
Exposed Population: 160 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 12 Nov 2023 05:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000laff Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - Papua, Indonesia, on Thursday, November.. 11/16/2023 3:50:00 AM.

16 Nov 02:40 UTC First to report: EMSC after 18 minutes. 16 Nov 02:40 : Magnitude recalculated from 5.1 to 5.2. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 10.0 to 101.0 km (from 6.2 to 63 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 13 km (8.1 mi) towards
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5.1-magnitude quake hits 42 km SE of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea: USGS 11/14/2023 8:49:00 PM.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.
1st LD Writethru: 5.8-magnitude quake hits New Britain region, Papua N.. 11/14/2023 3:21:00 PM.

BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted New Britain region, Papua New Guinea at....
Strong mag. 5.3 earthquake - 152 km west of Kokopo, East New Britain P.. 11/14/2023 2:54:00 PM.

14 Nov 13:43 UTC First to report: EMSC after 13 minutes. 14 Nov 13:47 : Magnitude recalculated from 5.3 to 5.0. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 10.0 to 241.0 km (from 6.2 to 150 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 136 km (85 mi) towards
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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),