M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Apr 2015 06:01 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 1051293
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 13.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5866 , 153.0197
Event Date: 01 Apr 2015 06:01 UTC
01 Apr 2015 16:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 448 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Apr 2015 06:27 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 180 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Southeast Asia Seen Facing Increasingly Intense Climate EventsFri, 03 Apr 2015 02:13:00 +0200.

London . Densely populated Southeast Asian island states such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines are likely to face more intense climate events in future, analysts said on Thursday. These islands are especially vulnerable becau
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Anuncian fecha de nuevo simulacro de terremoto y tsunami en la Región ... Fri, 03 Apr 2015 02:03:00 +0200.

Publicado por Eduardo Woo La Oficina Nacional de Emergencias (Onemi) anunció este jueves un nuevo simulacro de terremoto y tsunami para la Región de Arica y Parinacota. El ejercicio se desarrollará el próximo 23 de abril, en una hora no di
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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),