M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 11 Apr 2016 00:50 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 1084102
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 31.54 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9352 , 152.9316
Event Date: 11 Apr 2016 00:50 UTC
11 Apr 2016 10:50 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2016 01:21 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 252 | About casualties: 36 | Last hour: 0

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Varios muertos y centenares de heridos en un potente terremoto registr ... Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:49:00 +0200.

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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),