M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 15 May 2015 10:30 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 1054916
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 32.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.697 , 150.3528
Event Date: 15 May 2015 10:30 UTC
15 May 2015 20:30 Local
Exposed Population:
150789 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2015 10:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),