M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Sep 2024 05:01 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 1445051
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 42.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.4177 , 156.1219
Event Date: 08 Sep 2024 05:01 UTC
08 Sep 2024 16:01 Local
Exposed Population: 60 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 08 Sep 2024 05:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nqf4 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),