M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Jul 2013 17:16 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 1000444
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 12.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.9575 , 148.8656
Event Date: 10 Jul 2013 17:16 UTC
11 Jul 2013 03:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 32387 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jul 2013 20:08 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 291 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima, morto di cancro il capo-centrale eroe YoshidaSun, 14 Jul 2013 16:58:00 +0200.

TOKYO - L'ex capo della centrale nucleare di Fukushima, Masao Yoshida, l'eroe che autonomamente decise di raffreddare i reattori danneggiati dal sisma/tsunami del 2011 con acqua di mare violando gli ordini dei superiori, è deceduto in matti
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Caritas means charity - In Samoan it means AlofaSun, 14 Jul 2013 16:50:00 +0200.

The Secretary General of Caritas Samoa, Tuala Puletini Molesi, was in New Zealand last week meeting with his Aotearoa counterparts. Tuala is a matai title holder of Leauva’a village. Caritas, a Catholic charity organization with 165 member
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Sir Ian Botham to walk across Sri Lanka in NovemberSun, 14 Jul 2013 14:35:00 +0200.

July 14, Colombo: Former cricket captain of England and the cricket commentator Sir Ian Botham announced that he would hold an eight day walk in Sri Lanka in November.
Indonesia: Radio Distribution and Media Support in Aceh quake areaSun, 14 Jul 2013 03:57:00 +0200.

Source: First Response Radio Country: Indonesia First Response Radio (FRR) network members, First Response Indonesia, have responded to the earthquake in Aceh province, Indonesia. On Thursday 11 th July First Response Indonesia deployed a t
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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),