M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Feb 2015 04:36 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 1047819
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 50.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4611 , 151.5701
Event Date: 01 Feb 2015 04:36 UTC
01 Feb 2015 14:36 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51320 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Feb 2015 04:59 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 126 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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World: Le Pacifique teste son Système d’alerte aux tsunamisMon, 02 Feb 2015 03:46:00 +0100.

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Tsunami warning system testedMon, 02 Feb 2015 03:31:00 +0100.

A simulation exercise to test the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (P.W.T.S), in order to know how ready coastal countries bordering this ocean are in case of such events, is being organised. Over 40 nations are participating in the trial, e
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),