Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 03 Oct 2023 01:56 UTC

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M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Oct 2023 01:56 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 1394234
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	86 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.5206 , 153.6892
Event Date:	03 Oct 2023 01:56 UTC 03 Oct 2023 11:56 Local
Exposed Population:	30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	03 Oct 2023 21:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000lce4	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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