M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Apr 2016 04:22 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 1084062
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.2677 , 151.2769
Event Date: 10 Apr 2016 04:22 UTC
10 Apr 2016 14:22 Local
Exposed Population:
121209 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2016 04:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 238 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Philippine quake injures at least 3 peopleThu, 14 Apr 2016 02:50:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 rattled a southern Philippine region as people slept, collapsing the walls of three houses and injuring at least three people, officials said. Renato Solidum of the
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Mental health care in emergencies 'not an optional luxury'Thu, 14 Apr 2016 02:46:00 +0200.

Mark van Ommeren, public mental health adviser at WHO, said: "We have a lot of data showing that mental health is a much bigger problem, a much bigger part of life, than people previously realized — it's one of the elephants in the room."
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Philippine quake injures at least 3 peopleThu, 14 Apr 2016 02:45:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) " Philippine officials say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 rattled a southern region as people slept, collapsing the walls of three houses and injuring at least three people. Renato Solidum of the Ph
...(more)
Moderate quake shakes southern PhilippinesThu, 14 Apr 2016 02:15:00 +0200.

MANILA — A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of southern Philippines early Thursday (April 14), seismologists said, with no damage or casualties immediately reported and no tsunami warning issued. The quake occurred at 2.21am off M
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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),