M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 06 Jan 2016 05:11 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 1077925
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 56.75 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8415 , 154.6297
Event Date: 06 Jan 2016 05:11 UTC
06 Jan 2016 16:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 62666 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2016 06:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),