M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Nov 2020 05:24 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 1242333
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8523 , 153.542
Event Date: 03 Nov 2020 05:24 UTC
03 Nov 2020 15:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Nov 2020 10:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c9lj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 17 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Researchers send drones to active volcanoes to improve early warning s ... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:29:00 +0100.

There are about 300 active volcanoes on Earth, and anyone of them erupting could cause wide-scale disruptions. That’s why monitoring them is very important. Now, a group of researchers has created specially-adapted drones that can fly into
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Drones Are Being Sent Straight Into Volcanoes, For Life-Saving Science ... Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:49:00 +0100.

Now researchers have designed specially-adapted drones to help gather data from an active volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The drones could help local communities monitor nearby volcanoes and forecast future eruptions. Their measurements
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Drones Are Being Sent Straight Into Volcanoes, For Life-Saving Science ... Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:40:00 +0100.

Now researchers have designed specially-adapted drones to help gather data from an active volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The drones could help local communities monitor nearby volcanoes and forecast future eruptions. Their measurements
...(more)
Scientists Are Flying Drones Into Active Volcanoes for ScienceMon, 02 Nov 2020 16:37:00 +0100.

There are an estimated 300 active volcanoes around the world. Monitoring them to forewarn the public is an important undertaking, but measuring volcanic gas emissions is not an easy feat. Recently, to aid this effort, researchers have desig
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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),