M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Feb 2016 22:42 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 1081036
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.6002 , 141.3699
Event Date: 20 Feb 2016 22:42 UTC
21 Feb 2016 08:42 Local
Exposed Population:
144793 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2016 23:06 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 324 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Los cambios en el monitoreo que trajo consigo el terremoto del 27/FWed, 24 Feb 2016 18:20:00 +0100.

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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),