M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Jul 2016 01:30 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 1090731
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7481 , 148.1753
Event Date: 27 Jul 2016 01:30 UTC
27 Jul 2016 11:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 54241 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2016 01:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006hzv 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: 413 | About casualties: 4 | 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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),