M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 05 Feb 2016 17:48 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 1080047
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 96.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.4032 , 153.5923
Event Date: 05 Feb 2016 17:48 UTC
06 Feb 2016 03:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 21012 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2016 18:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 190 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Séisme : ils ont survécu plus de 72 heures sous les décombresTue, 09 Feb 2016 14:52:00 +0100.

Les espoirs de retrouver des survivants sous les décombres après un tremblement de terre s'amenuisent au-delà de 72 heures mais des cas de survie exceptionnels sont répertoriés. « Les 72 heures cruciales pour les sauveteurs sont la norme ma
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Sismo 6,4 Richter afecta al sur de Taiwán y colapsan varios edificiosTue, 09 Feb 2016 14:09:00 +0100.

Sismo 6,4 Richter afecta al sur de Taiwán y colapsan edificios El temblor ocurrió a unos 36 kilómetros al sureste de la ciudad de Yujing. Onemi descartó que el movimiento telúrico origine un tsunami en costas chilenas. Un sismo de 6,4 Rich
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My dad killed himself when I was 13. He hid his depression. I won't hi ... Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:19:00 +0100.

I was 13 years old and I didn’t know about depression, didn’t know that my dad had struggled silently with his mental health for years. I didn’t know the name for what started to change him. Why he became so tired, so withdrawn. Why he seem
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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),