M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 14 May 2024 17:15 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 1428753
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 109.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6353 , 150.1746
Event Date: 14 May 2024 17:15 UTC
15 May 2024 03:15 Local
Exposed Population: 180 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 14 May 2024 17:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000myk7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 24 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 2

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A magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Kokopo, Kokopo District, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 10 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one of the key international agencies that m
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Strong mag. 5.8 earthquake - 57 km north of Kokopo, East New Britain, ... 2024-05-18T16:16+0200.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Kokopo, Kokopo District, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 10 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one of the key international agencies that m
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Moderate mag. 4.5 earthquake - 181 km northwest of Mendi, Southern Hig ... 2024-05-18T08:16+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tari , a town with 8,200 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 102 km (63 mi) distance southeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking ther
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Moderate mag. 4.1 earthquake - West Papua Region, Indonesia, on Friday ... 2024-05-17T17:36+0200.

Based on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 21.5 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.04 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),