M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 16 Feb 2016 19:07 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 1080751
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 54.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6406 , 152.6283
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 19:07 UTC
17 Feb 2016 05:07 Local
Exposed Population:
232410 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2016 19:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 265 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Business: Researchers believe GPS will hasten tsunami warningsSat, 20 Feb 2016 18:11:00 +0100.

WASHINGTON: Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, believe that global position system (GPS) instruments could provide more rapid and more accurate warning of a tsunami. In a paper to be published in the journal Geophysical Rese
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Raúl visita el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas en Sant ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:25:00 +0100.

El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros visitó este viernes el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas en Santiago de Cuba. Durante más de dos horas dialogó con directivos y trabaj
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Caso Maremoto: Fiscalía se reúne con abogados defensores en antesala d ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:59:00 +0100.

A menos de un mes de que se inicien las audiencias de preparación del juicio oral por el terremoto y maremoto ocurrido el 10 de febrero de 2010, el fiscal José Luis Pérez Calaf sostiene reuniones con los abogados de los imputados en la caus
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Visita Raúl Castro Centro Sismológico en Santiago de CubaSat, 20 Feb 2016 16:08:00 +0100.

Raúl Castro Ruz, presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros de Cuba, visitó el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas, para conocer de primera mano acerca de la situación anómala que se ha presentado en Santiago de Cuba, 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),