M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Mar 2015 01:02 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 1050540
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2876 , 149.9228
Event Date: 20 Mar 2015 01:02 UTC
20 Mar 2015 11:02 Local
Exposed Population:
115814 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2015 01:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 161 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

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Tulcingo Del Valle - scossa di di magnitudo 5.4 Terremoto : Registrata in Mexico poco dopo le 23.30, ora italiana. Lo conferma l’EMSC, il Centro Sismologico Euro-mediterraneo, secondo cui l’epicentro è stato localizzato nella regione di Pue
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Train service resumes on final stretch of JR line in disaster-hit Miya ... Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:32:00 +0100.

ONAGAWA, Miyagi Prefecture--After a four-year wait, trains are up and running the full length of the restored JR Ishinomaki Line, which was ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. The first train left Onagawa Station at 6:12 a.
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Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid reliefSat, 21 Mar 2015 10:03:00 +0100.

Taiwan's space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief. Space Daily Saturday 21st March, 2015. Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged A
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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),