M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 21 Aug 2017 23:16 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 1119764
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 98.32 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0217 , 150.8404
Event Date: 21 Aug 2017 23:16 UTC
22 Aug 2017 09:16 Local
Exposed Population:
130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2017 00:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us2000aagn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),