M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 03 May 2015 20:21 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 1053690
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 75.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6702 , 151.9164
Event Date: 03 May 2015 20:21 UTC
04 May 2015 06:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 24557 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2015 20:35 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: 928 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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El antes y el después del planetaThu, 07 May 2015 19:43:00 +0200.

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Olas gigantes desde México hasta ChileThu, 07 May 2015 19:27:00 +0200.

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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),