M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Jul 2017 03:42 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 1116402
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 41.41 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7459 , 147.799
Event Date: 07 Jul 2017 03:42 UTC
07 Jul 2017 13:42 Local
Exposed Population:
260000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jul 2017 04:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us100097jz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 219 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

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DVG a gana e “Silver Award” den Caribe Wave 2017Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:18:00 +0200.

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Tsunami plan upgradeTue, 11 Jul 2017 00:21:00 +0200.

THE upgrade and instalment of Fiji's tsunami warning siren network is expected to be completed by October this year, says Pacific Community (SPC) deputy director general Dr Audrey Aumua. The proposed areas for the stationing of the new five
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¿IGP busca predecir terremotos? Anuncian tremenda meta...Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:32:00 +0200.

Cuando ocurre un sismo, en el centro de monitoreo sísmico del Instituto Geofísico del Perú ( ubicado en La Molina, se inicia una intensa jornada laboral. Una alarma, además del propio movimiento del suelo, da aviso a ingenieros y sismólogos
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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),