M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Aug 2023 19:14 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 1388623
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.8432 , 152.1945
Event Date: 25 Aug 2023 19:14 UTC
26 Aug 2023 05:14 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Aug 2023 17:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000kr0x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),