M 5.4 in Papua New Guinea on 05 May 2024 15:40 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 1427389
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 105.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8483 , 146.7643
Event Date: 05 May 2024 15:40 UTC
06 May 2024 01:40 Local
Exposed Population: 480 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 May 2024 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwhz 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 419 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 6

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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),