M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 16 Aug 2022 17:25 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 1333887
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 52.035 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9323 , 146.6275
Event Date: 16 Aug 2022 17:25 UTC
17 Aug 2022 03:25 Local
Exposed Population:
690 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2022 17:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ibdp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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

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Significant magnitude 5.8 earthquake 96 km northeast of Lae, Papua New ... 2022-08-13T21:32+0200.

Papua New Guinea was shaken near Lae, Morobe Province, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 only 12 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near La
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Strong mag. 5.8 earthquake - Near Lae, Morobe, Papua New Guinea, on Su ... 2022-08-13T21:32+0200.

Papua New Guinea was shaken near Lae, Morobe Province, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 only 12 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near La
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Light mag. 4.5 earthquake - Solomon Sea, 29 km northwest of Kandrian, ... 2022-08-13T06:16+0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred only 20 minutes ago 29 km northwest of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 47.8 km beneath the epicenter near Kandr
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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),