M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Jan 2022 13:16 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 1305653
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 70.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5982 , 147.3301
Event Date: 12 Jan 2022 13:16 UTC
12 Jan 2022 23:16 Local
Exposed Population: 400 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2022 13:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gbb7 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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

Articles: 1480 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

DFA: Safety of Filipinos in Tonga, Samoa, Fiji ensured after volcanic ... 2022-01-16T13:12+0100.

A Planet SkySat image shows a plume of smoke rising from the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai days before its eruption on January 15, in Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, Tonga, January 07, 2022. Planet Labs PBC/via REUTERS. MANILA, P
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Ecuador issues tsunami warning in Galapagos due to underwater volcano ... 2022-01-16T12:54+0100.

The National Tsunami Warning Center of Ecuador issued this Saturday a tsunami warning for Santa Cruz Island, in the center of the Galapagos archipelago, after detecting marine disturbances as a result of the volcanic eruption near Tonga, in
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Japan lifts tsunami warnings along the coast | Dark news : PPTVHD362022-01-16T12:54+0100.

Japan Meteorological cancel the warning Watch out for “tsunami” waves along the coast. After an underwater volcano erupted in Tonga yesterday evening, follow more news at the website. https://www.pptvhd36.com and social media channels faceb
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Japan warns of tsunami following volcanic eruption in Tonga2022-01-16T12:53+0100.

Satellite image captures Tonga’s Hunga volcano (right) erupting Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Saturday midnight issued a tsunami warning following an earlier volcanic eruption in Tonga. The weather agency
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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),