M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Aug 2022 05:37 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 1333271
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5246 , 151.6305
Event Date: 08 Aug 2022 05:37 UTC
08 Aug 2022 15:37 Local
Exposed Population: About 7000 people in MMI
80 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2022 05:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i904 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

Articles: 20 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Terremoto in Papua Nuova Guinea2022-08-08T18:45+0200.

Un forte terremoto di magnitudo 5.6 è avvenuto in Papua Nuova Guinea . La scossa è stata avvertita chiaramente questa mattina, lunedì 8 agosto, intorno alle 7:37. Terremoto Papua Nuova Guinea: scossa di magnitudo 5.6. Un forte terremoto si
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Terremoto Papua Nuova Guinea: scossa di magnitudo 5.62022-08-08T10:28+0200.

Un forte terremoto di magnitudo 5.6 è avvenuto in Papua Nuova Guinea. La scossa è stata avvertita chiaramente questa mattina, lunedì 8 agosto, intorno alle ... ...
Terremoto, fortissima scossa in mattinata: allerta massima, magnitudo ... 2022-08-08T08:59+0200.

(Di lunedì 8 agosto 2022) Una fortissima scossa di Terremoto ha spaventato la popolazione locale. La potenza segnalata è stata molto alta. Vediamo quale zona ha colpito, il magnitudo e l’epicentro del sisma. Il risveglio per gli abitanti di
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Significant magnitude 5.4 earthquake 135 km southwest of Kokopo, Papua ... 2022-08-08T08:14+0200.

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake near Kokopo, Kokopo District, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 17 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies tha
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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),