M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 05 Jan 2016 19:48 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 1077897
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 89.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.447 , 147.1328
Event Date: 05 Jan 2016 19:48 UTC
06 Jan 2016 05:48 Local
Exposed Population:
454868 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2016 22:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
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

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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),