M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Apr 2015 17:09 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 1052966
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 128.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.3122 , 143.2401
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 17:09 UTC
26 Apr 2015 03:09 Local
Exposed Population:
326733 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 17:29 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
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: 509 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

The cities at greatest risk for a mega-quakeWed, 29 Apr 2015 17:02:00 +0200.

All are located near active fault lines, and all have dense and, in many cases, growing populations. And all tend to lack the earthquake-safe construction needed to weather a large magnitude quake. "All things being equal, those vulnerable
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08:30 | Perfiles Miguel Estrada: “Lima no está preparada para afrontar ... Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:26:00 +0200.

Lima, 28 de octubre de 1746; Áncash, 31 de mayo de 1970; Pisco, 15 de agosto de 2007. La Tierra no avisa. Tiembla el día menos pensado sin dar una señal de alerta. Lo hizo en aquellas fechas y según Miguel Estrada lo volverá a hacer en un f
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Erste deutsche Hilfsgüter in Kathmandu eingetroffenWed, 29 Apr 2015 14:38:00 +0200.

Für die Opfer des verheerenden Erdbebens in Nepal sind die ersten Hilfsgüter aus Deutschland eingetroffen. “Der erste Transportflieger, finanziert aus dem Auswärtigen Amt, ist jetzt endlich nach vielen, vielen Problemen in Kathmandu gelande
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Katmandu spostata tre metri a sud. "Mossa dall’energia distruttiva"Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:54:00 +0200.

Roma, 29 aprile 2015 - ENERGIA distruttiva: esplode e uccide, rade al suolo. È l’energia che ha provocato lo spostamento verso Sud dell’intera città di Katmandu di 3 metri. È l’energia sprigionata dai terremoti talmente violenti da aprire f
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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),