M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 13 Jan 2024 09:08 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 1410536
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.508 , 153.7106
Event Date: 13 Jan 2024 09:08 UTC
13 Jan 2024 19:08 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2024 09:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000m3hb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

5.2-magnitude quake hits 161 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea -- USGS2024-01-13T11:53+0100.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 161 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea at 09:08:16 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.2 km, was initially determined to
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5.2-magnitude quake hits 161 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea -- USGS2024-01-13T11:46+0100.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 161 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea at 09:08:16 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.2 km, was initially determined to
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5.2-magnitude quake hits 161 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea -- USGS2024-01-13T11:43+0100.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 161 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea at 09:08:16 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.2 km, was initially determined to
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Strong mag. 5.3 earthquake - New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea, on ... 2024-01-13T10:22+0100.

A strong magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurred under the sea near the coast of papua New Guinea in the late afternoon of Saturday, Jan 13, 2024 at 7.08 pm local time (GMT +10). The quake had a very shallow depth of 10 km (6 mi) and was not felt
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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),