M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Jul 2015 15:01 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 1059175
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 82.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9841 , 147.335
Event Date: 02 Jul 2015 15:01 UTC
03 Jul 2015 01:01 Local
Exposed Population:
290773 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jul 2015 15:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.7 -0.7
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 188 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Fußball-WM und Emanzipation: Die anderen „Nadeshiko“Sun, 05 Jul 2015 14:50:00 +0200.

Wieder mal gewonnen und nebenbei auch noch Rollenbilder verändert: japanische Spielerinnen in Kanada. Foto: ap. TOKIO taz | Überall in Japan wird in diesen Tagen von den „Nadeshiko“ gesprochen. Es ist der Spitzname der japanischen Fußballer
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El guardián de las pruebas nucleares busca otros empleosSun, 05 Jul 2015 11:20:00 +0200.

El 15 de febrero de 2013, una bola de fuego cruzó el cielo sobre la región rusa de Cheliabinsk liberando 30 veces más energía que la bomba atómica de Hiroshima. Unos años antes, en 2006, un terremoto de magnitud 7,5 sacudió Mozambique, conv
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El guardián de las pruebas nucleares busca otros empleosSun, 05 Jul 2015 11:07:00 +0200.

El 15 de febrero de 2013, una bola de fuego cruzó el cielo sobre la región rusa de Cheliabinsk liberando 30 veces más energía que la bomba atómica de Hiroshima. Unos años antes, en 2006, un terremoto de magnitud 7,5 sacudió Mozambique, conv
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Soccer: Ahead of day of destiny, Sasaki confident champions Japan can ... Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:47:00 +0200.

Japan coach Norio Sasaki is confident the reigning champions can retain their title by beating familiar foes the United States again in the Women's World Cup final on Sunday. "It's a real honor to be battling the United States again," said
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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.
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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),