M 5.4 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jun 2021 14:49 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 1274479
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 69.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.578 , 154.9944
Event Date: 24 Jun 2021 14:49 UTC
25 Jun 2021 01:49 Local
Exposed Population: 120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jun 2021 15:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000epct Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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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),