M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 19 May 2015 11:10 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 1055283
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4848 , 151.8201
Event Date: 19 May 2015 11:10 UTC
19 May 2015 21:10 Local
Exposed Population:
About 45461 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2015 11:37 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: 464 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),