M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Sep 2021 20:47 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 1286211
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 15.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.7763 , 148.564
Event Date: 18 Sep 2021 20:47 UTC
19 Sep 2021 06:47 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
160 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2021 22:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fchv Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),