M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 02 May 2016 08:10 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 1085542
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 98.03 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.58 , 152.4727
Event Date: 02 May 2016 08:10 UTC
02 May 2016 18:10 Local
Exposed Population:
242643 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 May 2016 08:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
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

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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),