M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 17 May 2016 12:43 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 1086446
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 70.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.9849 , 144.4555
Event Date: 17 May 2016 12:43 UTC
17 May 2016 22:43 Local
Exposed Population:
597443 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 May 2016 13:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
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

Articles: 254 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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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),