M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Jul 2024 10:16 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 1435494
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 41.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5604 , 153.5894
Event Date: 01 Jul 2024 10:16 UTC
01 Jul 2024 20:16 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 01 Jul 2024 10:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n9k8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 1

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Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - West Papua Region, Indonesia, on Wednesday ... 2024-07-03T15:53+0200.

Based on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 30.8 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1
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Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - 70 km northeast of Lae, Morobe, Papua N ... 2024-07-03T04:59+0200.

Based on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 39.1 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 8 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),