M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 21 Sep 2022 09:30 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 1338671
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 210.03 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4702 , 147.0256
Event Date: 21 Sep 2022 09:30 UTC
21 Sep 2022 19:30 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2022 09:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i9uu 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),