M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Dec 2023 15:27 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 1404804
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5061 , 153.3288
Event Date: 08 Dec 2023 15:27 UTC
09 Dec 2023 01:27 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2023 15:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lhhy Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

1st LD Writethru: 5.0-magnitude quake hits 113 km SE of Kimbe, Papua N.. 12/12/2023 3:20:00 PM.

BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted 113 km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea at 1311 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S.
Urgent: 5.0-magnitude quake hits 113 km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea .. 12/12/2023 3:20:00 PM.

BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.
1st LD Writethru: 5.0-magnitude quake hits 113 km SE of Kimbe, Papua N.. 12/12/2023 3:19:00 PM.

BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted 113 km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea at 1311 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be a
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Significant 5.0 quake hits near Kimbe, Talasea District, West New Brit.. 12/12/2023 2:58:00 PM.

Just 31 minutes ago, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Kimbe, Talasea District, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded late at night on Tuesday, December 12th, 2023, at 11:11 pm local time, at a shallow de
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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),