M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Sep 2016 16:22 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 1093074
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 88.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3055 , 154.905
Event Date: 01 Sep 2016 16:22 UTC
02 Sep 2016 03:22 Local
Exposed Population:
133485 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Sep 2016 14:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10006jbe 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.
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Latest media headlines

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Tsunami risk management demonstration in GalleMon, 05 Sep 2016 12:40:00 +0200.

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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),