M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Mar 2024 09:57 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 1421651
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 576.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.5577 , 149.578
Event Date: 29 Mar 2024 09:57 UTC
29 Mar 2024 19:57 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI I
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2024 10:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8qr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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: 28 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

BNPB to develop national landslide early warning system: Official2024-04-01T10:20+0200.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) teamed up with several universities to develop an early warning information system for large-scale landslides that covers all vulnerable areas in Indonesia. Head of the disas
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World Earthquake Report for Monday, 1 April 20242024-04-01T07:35+0200.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.2 quake in Papua New Guinea near Arawa, Bougainville, only 9 minutes ago. The earthquake hit around noon on Monday, April 1st, 2024, at 12:39 pm local time at an interm
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Moderate yet deep 5.2 quake hits near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New G ... 2024-04-01T03:51+0200.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.2 quake in Papua New Guinea near Arawa, Bougainville, only 9 minutes ago. The earthquake hit around noon on Monday, April 1st, 2024, at 12:39 pm local time at an interm
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Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - Papua New Guinea, 41 km west of Arawa, ... 2024-04-01T03:51+0200.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.2 quake in Papua New Guinea near Arawa, Bougainville, only 9 minutes ago. The earthquake hit around noon on Monday, April 1st, 2024, at 12:39 pm local time at an interm
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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),