M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Jan 2015 12:27 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 1046313
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 54.09 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1049 , 146.5795
Event Date: 07 Jan 2015 12:27 UTC
07 Jan 2015 22:27 Local
Exposed Population:
605658 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2015 12:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0
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

Articles: 191 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Millions expected to greet Pope in ManilaSun, 11 Jan 2015 11:59:00 +0100.

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Yolanda survivors find homes in ruins againSun, 11 Jan 2015 10:14:00 +0100.

TACLOCAN CITY - A year after losing all their belongings to one of the world's strongest storms, thousands of weary people in the Philippines emerged from evacuation shelters on Sunday to find their homes again in ruins. Typhoon Ruby (Hagup
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Rains threaten papal mass in LeyteSun, 11 Jan 2015 10:14:00 +0100.

MANILA - The Philippines was watching nervously on Sunday as a tropical storm threatened a typhoon-prone central island that Pope Francis will visit this week on his tour of the fervently Catholic nation. The country's weather bureau said a
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I'm tapping the housefly's genome to fight diseaseSun, 11 Jan 2015 09:59:00 +0100.

It is an insect that transmits a lot of diseases to humans and to animals. It also rapidly evolves resistance to insecticides, so having the genome sequence will help us research how resistance develops so we can try to tackle it. Does the
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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),