M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea from 28 Jul 2013 17:31 UTC to 17:31

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1000730
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 32.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.3691 , 144.8964
Event Date: 28 Jul 2013 17:31 UTC
29 Jul 2013 03:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 65519 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2013 17:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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El "turismo catástrofe", una actividad lucrativa desde Japón hasta Nue ... Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:48:00 +0200.

Rikuzentakata era una ciudad famosa por su playa y por sus pinos majestuosos en el Pacífico japonés. Pero desde el tsunami de 2011 se convirtió en un polo de "turismo catástrofe", una actividad lucrativa en muchos puntos del planeta.
El 'turismo catástrofe', actividad lucrativa desde Japón hasta Nueva O ... Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:12:00 +0200.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japón (AFP) photo0. Rikuzentakata era una ciudad famosa por su playa y por sus pinos majestuosos en el Pacífico japonés, pero desde el tsunami de 2011 se convirtió en un polo de 'turismo catástrofe', una actividad lucrativa e
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),