M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Jan 2016 05:46 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 1079423
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 70.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1318 , 148.9774
Event Date: 27 Jan 2016 05:46 UTC
27 Jan 2016 15:46 Local
Exposed Population:
About 62809 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2016 06:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Data, images, links, services and documents

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),