M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 31 Jul 2023 23:07 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 1385079
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 118.958 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4695 , 150.7863
Event Date: 31 Jul 2023 23:07 UTC
01 Aug 2023 09:07 Local
Exposed Population:
80 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 01 Aug 2023 01:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kwy1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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200 km
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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),