M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 07 May 2015 21:18 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 1054120
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 68.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.931 , 152.0755
Event Date: 07 May 2015 21:18 UTC
08 May 2015 07:18 Local
Exposed Population:
241650 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2015 21:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 420 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

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Jakarta - Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) melansir malam ini gempa terjadi di 40 Km Barat Laut Halmahera Barat, Maluku Utara. Gempa ini terjadi sekitar pukul 22:45:09 WIB. Dari keterangan BMKG, Senin (11/5/2015) gempa in
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iciHaïti - Social : Séisme de 1842, Haïti se souvientMon, 11 May 2015 19:01:00 +0200.

11/05/2015 12:39:43 Jeudi dernier, commémoration du 171ème anniversaire du tremblement de terre du 7 mai 1842, une marche a été organisée à travers les rues de Cap-Haïtien. Des émission multiplex sur plusieurs stations de radio, une distri
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Japon : le renouveau touristiqueMon, 11 May 2015 18:54:00 +0200.

Aujourd'hui, le secteur touristique japonais se porte mieux que jamais. (Crédits : Roberto A Sanchez) Geoffroy de Becdelièvre 11/05/2015, 17:40 375 mots Printemps 2011: le Japon est frappé par une triple catastrophe, sans précédent (séisme,
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Typhoon ‘Dodong’ leaves 2 deadMon, 11 May 2015 18:49:00 +0200.

Two persons were killed after a powerful storm grazed the country’s northeastern tip over the weekend, civil defense officials said on Monday. Many of the people who evacuated from the storm’s path started to return home late Sunday night,
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),