M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Feb 2016 05:31 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 1080782
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 58.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6203 , 152.5368
Event Date: 17 Feb 2016 05:31 UTC
17 Feb 2016 15:31 Local
Exposed Population:
240967 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2016 06:18 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: 269 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Al doilea testamentSun, 21 Feb 2016 05:19:00 +0100.

Dreptatea mea cea dintâi este limba română în care lucrează iubirea lui Dumnezeu şi care, ca o apă dătătoare de viaţă, s-a revărsat peste însetarea şi pustiul unui pământ părând uitat pentru vecie şi hărăzit pierzaniei. (Grigore Vieru, Stri
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Visitó Raúl el Centro Nacional de InvestigacionesSun, 21 Feb 2016 05:04:00 +0100.

El General de Ejér­cito Raúl Castro Ruz visitó este viernes el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas para conocer de primera mano acerca de la situación anómala que se ha presentado en el territorio oriental desde principios del m
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Kraliyet yıldızı parlayacakSun, 21 Feb 2016 02:08:00 +0100.

Haftanın genelinde “Başak burcundaki dolunay” etkili olacak. Dolunay süresince; olaylara daha titiz, detaycı ve eleştirel yaklaşabiliriz. Mükemmele ulaşmak için daha çok çalışmak zorunda kalabilir, pratik, akılcı ve mantıklı çözümler ile ha
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Detectan fuga de agua radiactiva en una planta nuclear de JapónSun, 21 Feb 2016 00:40:00 +0100.

Moscú (Sputnik) La empresa operadora de la central, Kansai Electric Power (КЕРСО), comunicó que el incidente tuvo lugar en uno de los edificios del reactor número cuatro y que se derramaron unos 34 litros de agua contaminada. Los especialis
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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),