M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Jan 2018 21:54 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 1130977
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 65.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.7989 , 144.8987
Event Date: 14 Jan 2018 21:54 UTC
15 Jan 2018 07:54 Local
Exposed Population: 320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2018 22:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cjkg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 650 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

Amor en el aire: papa casa a pareja chilena en pleno vueloThu, 18 Jan 2018 21:22:00 +0100.

. La boda se celebró a los 36.000 pies de altura durante el vuelo del papa entre la capital chilena y la región norteña de Iquique, donde realizó poco después una misa multitudinaria. A BORDO DEL AVIÓN PAPAL.-¡ El amor está en el aire ! E
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Ce urmează după "cutremurul fiscal" declanșat de PSD. Experții anunță ... Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:20:00 +0100.

Experții fiscali încearcă să cuantifice în mod rațional pagubele produse de "uraganul fiscal" declanșat la sfârșitul anului trecut de PSD-ALDE. Bilanțul este provizoriu, deoarece unele efecte abia cum se văd, iar altele vor rămâne ascunse p
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Amor en el aire: Papa casa a pareja en pleno vueloThu, 18 Jan 2018 21:20:00 +0100.

El celebró el jueves la primera boda papal en el aire al casar en un avión a una pareja chilena mientras se dirigía a su última escala de su visita al país andino. La boda se celebró a los 36 mil pies de altura durante el vuelo entre la cap
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Cutremur cu magnitudine 5.6. S-a simţit puternicThu, 18 Jan 2018 21:14:00 +0100.

Cutremur cu magnitudine 5.6 la o adâncime de 20 km în Indonezia. Agenţia Naţională pentru Managementul Dezastrelor din Indonezia a precizat că seismul nu a activat sistemele de avertizare pentru tsunami în partea de sud a insulei Java, aar
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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),