M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Jul 2016 08:48 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 1089818
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 76.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4275 , 147.5238
Event Date: 12 Jul 2016 08:48 UTC
12 Jul 2016 18:48 Local
Exposed Population:
284612 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jul 2016 09:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us100062vf 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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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),