M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 22 May 2015 10:23 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 1055534
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 63.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.11 , 146.9492
Event Date: 22 May 2015 10:23 UTC
22 May 2015 20:23 Local
Exposed Population:
164951 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2015 10:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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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),