M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jan 2016 22:23 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 1079690
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.0039 , 155.159
Event Date: 30 Jan 2016 22:23 UTC
31 Jan 2016 08:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 69749 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2016 22:45 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 158 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Swatch laisse derrière lui le «tsunami» du franc fortWed, 03 Feb 2016 21:28:00 +0100.

évoquait un «tsunami». Un an plus tard, le premier groupe horloger du pays évalue les dégâts provoqués par une année «catastrophique au niveau des taux de change», selon le communiqué officiel. Premier affecté, le total des ventes inscrit d
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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),