M 5.8 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Aug 2017 06:26 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 1118718
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 34.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4006 , 151.5565
Event Date: 07 Aug 2017 06:26 UTC
07 Aug 2017 16:26 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
About 59000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Aug 2017 06:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a5g1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),