M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 09 Oct 2021 20:01 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 1289353
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 52.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6488 , 153.0318
Event Date: 09 Oct 2021 20:01 UTC
10 Oct 2021 06:01 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
120 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 15:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ftd2 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 264 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

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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),