M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 06 Nov 2015 06:11 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 1071298
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 77.12 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2574 , 147.5492
Event Date: 06 Nov 2015 06:11 UTC
06 Nov 2015 16:11 Local
Exposed Population:
264166 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Nov 2015 06:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
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: 233 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Elekrownia atomowa niedaleko czynnego wulkanu? Tam to na porządku dzie ... Tue, 10 Nov 2015 05:43:00 +0100.

Po "atomowym bałaganie" sprzed ponad 4 lat Japończycy powołali specjalną komisję, która miała znaleźć przyczyny nieprawidłowości. Po półtora roku prac stwierdzono, że zawiniła mentalność "made in Japan" i ze to społeczeństwo zafundowało sob
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Typhoon Haiyan survivors still living in sub-standard temporary shelte ... Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:14:00 +0100.

Two years ago, Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Central Philippines with so much power that it destroyed towns and villages. So survivors and the government had to rebuild from ground up. It is a difficult task, but the United Nations recent
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Philippines : les survivants du typhon destructeur, toujours en situat ... Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:58:00 +0100.

Il y a 2 ans, le typhon Haiyan s'abattait sur le centre des Philippines. Sa puissance était telle que des villes et des villages ont été rayés de la carte. Avec les survivants, le gouvernement a dû reconstruire sur des ruines. Une tâche dif
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Tamil repatriates face uncertain futureTue, 10 Nov 2015 02:05:00 +0100.

Settled on tribal lands in Katchal Islands in Andaman and Nicobar and kept away from the outside world’s attention, 161 plantation workers of Tamil families face an uncertain future. They were unable to undertake any economic activities on
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),