M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 26 May 2015 22:17 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 1055929
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.8894 , 146.8536
Event Date: 26 May 2015 22:17 UTC
27 May 2015 08:17 Local
Exposed Population:
200263 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 May 2015 23:05 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  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 995 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

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Terremoto in Giappone 8.5: il videoSat, 30 May 2015 21:14:00 +0200.

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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),