Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 22 Apr 2025 13:29 UTC

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M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Apr 2025 13:29 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 1478376
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	225.4 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.4973 , 146.9876
Event Date:	22 Apr 2025 13:29 UTC 22 Apr 2025 23:29 Local
Exposed Population:	1 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	23 Apr 2025 21:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000pu7q	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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