M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Aug 2017 20:30 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 1119136
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 11.87 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8046 , 153.5214
Event Date: 12 Aug 2017 20:30 UTC
13 Aug 2017 06:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2017 21:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a7na Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),