M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Nov 2020 02:41 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 1243817
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 70.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3396 , 153.8973
Event Date: 15 Nov 2020 02:41 UTC
15 Nov 2020 12:41 Local
Exposed Population:
About 75000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Nov 2020 03:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cf50 Scaled population (vector) 3.94  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),