M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 13 Aug 2023 04:09 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 1386794
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 23.796 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4099 , 148.7166
Event Date: 13 Aug 2023 04:09 UTC
13 Aug 2023 14:09 Local
Exposed Population: 70 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 13 Aug 2023 04:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kzmy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),