M 5.9 in Papua New Guinea on 04 Feb 2023 12:22 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 1357194
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 111.785 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3817 , 146.2246
Event Date: 04 Feb 2023 12:22 UTC
04 Feb 2023 22:22 Local
Exposed Population: 9 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2023 12:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000jlds Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 102 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.7 quake hits 97 km northwest of Lae, Pap ... 2023-02-04T14:05+0100.

Papua New Guinea was shaken near Lae, Morobe Province, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 only 25 minutes ago, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 101.9 km beneath the epicenter near Lae, M
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World Earthquake Report for Saturday, 4 February 20232023-02-04T06:27+0100.

This report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 4 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 39 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 109 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 191 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 2.4 x 10 1
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Papua Nuova Guinea, terremoto di magnitudo 8 vicino all'isola di Boung ... 2023-02-01T11:32+0100.

Non si hanno notizie di danni a cose o persone, l'allerta Tsunami è stato lanciato e poche ore dopo è rientrato.

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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),