M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Aug 2016 20:15 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 1092404
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 6.46 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8183 , 153.1178
Event Date: 23 Aug 2016 20:15 UTC
24 Aug 2016 06:15 Local
Exposed Population:
About 33976 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Aug 2016 17:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006g4w 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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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),