M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Sep 2015 22:16 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 1065390
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 46.05 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1254 , 147.3377
Event Date: 12 Sep 2015 22:16 UTC
13 Sep 2015 08:16 Local
Exposed Population:
311855 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Sep 2015 22:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 190 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

The Broad, LA's latest museum, remakes the city's art sceneWed, 16 Sep 2015 21:53:00 +0200.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When he arrived in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, Eli Broad once said, he found himself in a city without a cultural center. So the billionaire arts patron decided to build one. On Sept. 20 that effort takes a major
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Fukushima : premiers rejets en mer d'eau contaminée puis filtréeWed, 16 Sep 2015 21:18:00 +0200.

La compagnie japonaise Tepco, qui gère la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima, ravagée par le tsunami du 11 mars 2011, a commencé à rejeter en mer de l'eau contaminée issue de puits plus proches des réacteurs. Depuis l'an passé, Tokyo Electric
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The Broad, LA's latest museum, remakes the city's art sceneWed, 16 Sep 2015 19:34:00 +0200.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When he arrived in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, Eli Broad once said, he found himself in a city without a cultural center. So the billionaire arts patron decided to build one. On Sept. 20 that effort takes a major
...(more)
The Broad, LA's latest museum, remakes the city's art sceneWed, 16 Sep 2015 19:12:00 +0200.

On Sept. 20 that effort takes a major step forward with the opening of The Broad, a shining, pop-art styled museum holding 2,000 works by arguably every important contemporary artist of the last 60 years. The $140 million project featuring
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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),