M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 26 May 2016 18:40 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 1087023
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 149.32 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.1568 , 145.9546
Event Date: 26 May 2016 18:40 UTC
27 May 2016 04:40 Local
Exposed Population:
259236 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 May 2016 19:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
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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سليمان يزو الراعي: يجب توضيح الدستور وتحديــد نصــاب انتخــاب الرئيـسMon, 30 May 2016 15:04:00 +0200.

المركزية- دعا الرئيس العماد ميشال سليمان مجلس النواب الى توضيح الدستور وتحديد نصاب انتخاب الرئيس وذلك بعد زيارته بكركي حيث استقبله البطريرك الكاردينال مار بشاره بطرس الراعي. وقال الرئيس سليمان بعد اللقاء: "الزيارة اليوم بعد انتهاء الانتخابا
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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),