M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 04 Feb 2015 16:14 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 1048039
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 73.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3293 , 146.8249
Event Date: 04 Feb 2015 16:14 UTC
05 Feb 2015 02:14 Local
Exposed Population:
539367 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2015 02:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 261 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Tokio, la metrópoli imparable de un país en declive demográficoSat, 07 Feb 2015 23:23:00 +0100.

Tokio atrae cada año a más jóvenes nipones en busca de oportunidades y venidos de otras áreas de Japón sumidas en la despoblación, una tendencia que refleja las disparidades económicas dentro del país y que el Gobierno trata de frenar. En
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Petra Nemcova:::Tsunami made me focus on the positiveSat, 07 Feb 2015 22:02:00 +0100.

A SURVIVOR of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, Petra Nemcova has since dedicated her time to rebuilding schools in areas hit by catastrophe, turning down lucrative modelling work in the process. The Czech-born supermodel had been on holiday
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Presentador estrella de NBC acusado de mentirSat, 07 Feb 2015 20:39:00 +0100.

Al parecer el periodista inventó historias para darle más fuerza a sus informaciones y con el tiempo otros testigos de esos sucesos admitieron que Brian Williams ni siquiera estaba cerca. Una vez el presentador estrella de la televisión dij
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Hitachi : Japan readies first robot to probe melted Fukushima nuclear ... Sat, 07 Feb 2015 20:05:00 +0100.

A snake-like robot designed to examine the inside of one of three melted reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is ready to begin its expedition. Assessing the damage inside the reactors is a crucial step in the decommissioning of
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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.
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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),