M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Nov 2015 10:02 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 1073205
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 71.06 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2821 , 151.5585
Event Date: 22 Nov 2015 10:02 UTC
22 Nov 2015 20:02 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52237 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2015 10:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

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),