M 5.8 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Mar 2023 07:33 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 1363732
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 59.954 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5224 , 154.9642
Event Date: 08 Mar 2023 07:33 UTC
08 Mar 2023 18:33 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2023 07:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ji38 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 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),