M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 29 May 2016 23:19 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 1087214
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 472.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.8811 , 150.4666
Event Date: 29 May 2016 23:19 UTC
30 May 2016 09:19 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2016 23:42 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

Articles: 530 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Inondations : la Seine continue de monter à Paris, neuf morts en Allem ... Thu, 02 Jun 2016 22:46:00 +0200.

Le Louvre fermé pour protéger ses oeuvres, les bateaux-mouche à l'arrêt à Paris: les fortes crues qui touchent la France depuis mardi se déplaçaient jeudi vers la capitale, tandis qu'en Allemagne, les inondations ont fait au moins neuf mort
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Local 38 mins ago 9:21 a.m. Website shows earthquake risk at your homeThu, 02 Jun 2016 21:36:00 +0200.

Note: Many people have been having problems viewing results on the site. OSU says the site is having difficulties and they are working to solve the problem. Oregon State University has released an online tool to at their own address. help
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Inondations: un mort, la Seine continue de monter à Paris, 9 morts en ... Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:30:00 +0200.

Après les fortes pluies à Paris, la Seine est montée à 5,10 m jeudi après-midi et les autorités ont appelé à la vigilance, un pic à 6 m étant attendu vendredi. En région parisienne et en direction du sud, dans la région voisine du Centre-Va
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Find earthquake hazard at your house with new OSU toolThu, 02 Jun 2016 21:01:00 +0200.

Oregon State University launched a tool to help engineers, planners and geologists evaluate earthquake hazards in Oregon — just in case the 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone. O-Help (short for Oregon Hazard
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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),