M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Feb 2022 04:12 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 1311227
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6028 , 151.9155
Event Date: 24 Feb 2022 04:12 UTC
24 Feb 2022 14:12 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2022 23:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gzpj Scaled population (vector) 4.85  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),