M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 05 Feb 2016 20:11 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 1080053
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 30.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2848 , 141.5681
Event Date: 05 Feb 2016 20:11 UTC
06 Feb 2016 06:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 92507 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2016 21:12 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 525 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

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Govt issues new guidelines for disaster warningTue, 09 Feb 2016 19:23:00 +0100.

PMO and Cabinet Secretariat will have to be informed every three hours on developing situation of any disaster categorised as 'Red' and every 12 hours in case of disaster categorised as 'Orange. NEW DELHI: PMO and Cabinet Secretariat will
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"Sicilia, in arrivo un super terremoto" Sul web la bufala con tanto di ... Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:02:00 +0100.

"Domani la Sicilia sud-orientale sarà colpita da una super scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 8, con devastante tsunami nel mar Mediterraneo". Una clamorosa bufala sta girando sui social network dopo il sisma 4.6 di ieri tra Ragusa e Siracusa
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Massive earthquake hits Papua New Guinea- Warning CentreTue, 09 Feb 2016 17:42:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 has early on Tuesday, struck off the Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said in Port Moresby that the earthquake, that struck at 2:19 a.m. Tues
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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),