M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Jan 2018 05:44 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 1131272
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 165.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0561 , 154.9072
Event Date: 19 Jan 2018 05:44 UTC
19 Jan 2018 16:44 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2018 06:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cl2j Scaled population (vector) 5.05  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 335 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Una aurora boreal en la Plaza MayorSun, 21 Jan 2018 22:27:00 +0100.

al son del viento y el clima cambiante , generando un efecto visual muy parecido al de las auroras boreales. El concepto de la escultura, creada por la artista estadounidense Janet Echelman (cuyas instalaciones se pueden encontrar en destac
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Una aurora boreal en la Plaza MayorSun, 21 Jan 2018 22:02:00 +0100.

al son del viento y el clima cambiante , generando un efecto visual muy parecido al de las auroras boreales. El concepto de la escultura, creada por la artista estadounidense Janet Echelman (cuyas instalaciones se pueden encontrar en destac
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Crossing ocean to help the tsunami-hitSun, 21 Jan 2018 21:12:00 +0100.

For a group of artistes from T.N., who had witnessed the tsunami in 2004 and the destruction after, a tour of Japan was an opportunity to help the people there who were affected by the tsunami in 2011. Bharathanatyam guru Chinnamanur J. Kri
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Vulcano, isola della Papua Nuova Guinea in eruzione. Migliaia di evacu ... Sun, 21 Jan 2018 19:33:00 +0100.

Voli cancellati e migliaia di persone evacuate dalle isole intorno a Kadovar , vicino alla costa settentrionale di Papua Nuova Guinea , per l’eruzione dell’isola vulcanica che ha oscurato il cielo con vapore e cenere. Anche le imbarcazioni
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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),