Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea from 18 Sep 2021 20:47 UTC to 20:47

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M 5.8 in Papua New Guinea from 18 Sep 2021 20:47 UTC to 20:47

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 1286211
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.8M
Depth:	36.21 Km
Lat/Lon:	-9.8017 , 148.5959
Event Date:	18 Sep 2021 20:47 UTC 19 Sep 2021 06:47 Local
Exposed Population:	About 15000 people in MMI 160 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	18 Sep 2021 21:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000fchv	Scaled population (raster)	5.16
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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