M 7.1 in Papua New Guinea on 07 May 2015 07:10 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 1054043
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.1M
Depth: 23.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.2255 , 154.5511
Event Date: 07 May 2015 07:10 UTC
07 May 2015 17:10 Local
Exposed Population: About 26000 people in MMI
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2015 08:05 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.24m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 592 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Two Dead after Powerful Typhoon Passes North PhilippinesMon, 11 May 2015 07:01:00 +0200.

Two people were killed after a powerful storm grazed the country's northeastern tip over the weekend, civil defense officials said Monday. Many of the people who evacuated from the storm's path started to return home late Sunday night, afte
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Two killed as typhoon brushes northern PhilippinesMon, 11 May 2015 06:52:00 +0200.

MANILA - Two people were killed when Typhoon Noul grazed the northeastern tip of the Philippines over the weekend, civil defence officials said on Monday. Many of the people evacuated from the storm's path started to return home late Sunday
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Typhoon Noul 'grazes' PhilippinesMon, 11 May 2015 06:15:00 +0200.

Two people were killed after a powerful storm grazed the country's northeastern tip over the weekend, civil defence officials said Monday. Many of the people evacuated from the storm's path started to return home late Sunday night, after No
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Two dead after powerful typhoon passes north PhilippinesMon, 11 May 2015 06:06:00 +0200.

MANILA - Two people were killed after a powerful storm grazed the country's northeastern tip over the weekend, civil defence officials said on Monday. Many of the people evacuated from the storm's path started to return home late Sunday nig
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),