M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 28 Mar 2016 03:57 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 1083276
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 7.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.1835 , 151.1289
Event Date: 28 Mar 2016 03:57 UTC
28 Mar 2016 13:57 Local
Exposed Population:
About 25963 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2016 04:21 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

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بين كلام الرئيس أمين الجميل المروّج للذهاب نحو خيار الضرورة بانتخاب سليمان فرنجية رئيساً المقبول من 8 و14 آذار في ظل استحالة وصول ميشال عون، وكلام النائب سامي الجميل الرافض لانتخاب مرشّح من فريق 8 آذار لأنه يسلّم الجمهورية الى حزب الله، ضاع
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Technology › Fuji TV launches first data broadcasting service for natu ... Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:48:00 +0200.

TOKYO. Fuji Television Network Inc (Fuji TV) on Thursday launched a data broadcasting service for earthquake and tsunami information in English. Fuji TV provides viewers with useful information around their daily lives on TV screen via non-
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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),