M 4.6 in New Guinea, Papua New Guinea on 12 Nov 2014 19:37 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 1043018
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 53.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.57 , 145.88
Event Date: 12 Nov 2014 19:37 UTC
13 Nov 2014 05:37 Local
Exposed Population:
802499 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Nov 2014 21:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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

Articles: 447 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

7.1 quake hits Indonesia, causes small tsunamiSat, 15 Nov 2014 07:52:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong undersea earthquake hit eastern Indonesia on Saturday, triggering a small tsunami and some panic but no casualties or major damage. The 7.1 quake occurred west of Halmahera island, which is about four hours' fl
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Cutremur de 7,3 în estul Indoneziei. S-a emis și o ALERTĂ de tsunamiSat, 15 Nov 2014 07:50:00 +0100.

Am emis rapid o alertă de tsunami”, a declarat pentru AFP un oficial al Agenţiei meteorologice indoneziene. Valuri tsunami ar putea atinge zone ale Indoneziei, dar şi ale Filipinelor, Japoniei, Taiwanului şi ale altor insule din Pacificul d
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Indonesia, potente sisma di magnitudo 7,1 alle MoluccheSat, 15 Nov 2014 07:49:00 +0100.

Roma, 15 nov. (askanews) - Un potente sisma di magnitudo 7,1 ha colpito le isole Molucche, in Indonesia orientale, oggi. I moti tellurici hanno provocato il panico tra la popolazione, che ha temuto per uno tsunami. Piccole onde sono state r
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Zware aardbeving treft oostelijk Indonesië, tsunami-alarm tijdlang van ... Sat, 15 Nov 2014 07:48:00 +0100.

Indonesië heeft zaterdag een tijdlang een tsunami-alarm afgekondigd na een zware onderzeese aardbeving, die een magnitude van 7,3 had. Grote schade bleef evenwel uit en zaterdagochtend werd het alarm opnieuw opgeheven. De aardbeving vond p
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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),