M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Aug 2015 22:25 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 1063080
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 55.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1484 , 155.4738
Event Date: 14 Aug 2015 22:25 UTC
15 Aug 2015 09:25 Local
Exposed Population:
107826 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2015 22:57 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),