M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Jun 2016 13:47 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 1088922
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 114.56 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0878 , 145.3068
Event Date: 27 Jun 2016 13:47 UTC
27 Jun 2016 23:47 Local
Exposed Population:
1030408 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jun 2016 15:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000677a 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),