M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Mar 2017 06:33 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 1108228
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 109.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3039 , 143.5796
Event Date: 20 Mar 2017 06:33 UTC
20 Mar 2017 16:33 Local
Exposed Population:
1100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2017 06:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.6 -0.6
us20008t9d Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),