M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 10 May 2024 11:48 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 37.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2267 , 151.8945
Event Date: 10 May 2024 11:48 UTC
10 May 2024 21:48 Local
Exposed Population: 80 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Source: NEIC us6000mxpy
Inserted at: 10 May 2024 12:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxpy Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1570200 0 10 May 2024 11:48 5.6M, 37.2km 4.57 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:21 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Papua New Guinea ,of East New Britain (population 6,214) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
<1000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
East New Britain Papua New Guinea 6200 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Milim East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 10 km
Kaukum East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 11 km
Hoiya East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 11 km
Kalip East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 13 km
Mu East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 13 km
Nambling East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 14 km
Iwai East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 18 km
Long East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 19 km
Pendi East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 20 km
Kilalum East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 20 km
Mongu East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 21 km
Guma East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 23 km
Lakiri East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 23 km
Lamerien East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 24 km
Lalikar East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 26 km
Bakirua East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 27 km
Goni East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 29 km
Bagatavi East New Britain Papua New Guinea Village - 30 km

see full list

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Intensity Name IATA Code Elevation (m) Usage Runway type IFR Runway Length (ft) Distance
Gonalia GOE unknown 0 18 km

More information

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