M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Mar 2015 22:30 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 1050186
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 81.06 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.729 , 146.4032
Event Date: 14 Mar 2015 22:30 UTC
15 Mar 2015 08:30 Local
Exposed Population:
522204 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2015 22:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 296 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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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),