M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Feb 2016 15:19 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 1080515
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 57.03 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1042 , 146.7455
Event Date: 12 Feb 2016 15:19 UTC
13 Feb 2016 01:19 Local
Exposed Population:
538188 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2016 16:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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: 244 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

مروان حمادة: دعم الحريري لفرنجية يستأهل زيارته لبيت الوسطTue, 16 Feb 2016 14:55:00 +0100.

توقع النائب مروان حمادة في حديث اذاعي ان "يزور النائب سليمان فرنجية رئيس تيار المستقبل سعد الحريري كزيارة تقليدية وزيارة تضامن نتيجة التزام الحريري بترشيح فرنجية، وهذا الكلام بحد ذاته يستأهل زيارة الى بيت الوسط"، موضحا انه "وبالنسبة لمرشح ا
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Riesgo sísmico es la principal amenaza para RDTue, 16 Feb 2016 13:57:00 +0100.

El presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Emergencias (CNE), mayor general Rafael Emilio de Luna Pichirilo, dijo que el riesgo sísmico es considerado la primera amenaza que se cierne sobre la República Dominicana, el cual puede crear pérdida
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JP - inspiring knowledge anuncia o regresso da marca TSUNAMITue, 16 Feb 2016 13:40:00 +0100.

A JP – inspiring knowledge (JP-IK) anuncia o regresso da marca TSUNAMI . Vinte e dois anos após a sua criação, a TSUNAMI reinventa-se ao apresentar uma nova imagem, adaptada à realidade tecnológica de hoje, mas sempre à procura de inovação
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Ma calls for inspections of old buildings after earthquakeTue, 16 Feb 2016 13:34:00 +0100.

Taipei, Feb. 16 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) on Tuesday called for measures to prevent a recurrence of the destruction that occurred in Tainan during a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck southern Taiwan on Feb. 6. These measures wou
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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),