M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 28 Jul 2016 19:01 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 1090837
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 64.78 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.136 , 154.4561
Event Date: 28 Jul 2016 19:01 UTC
29 Jul 2016 05:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 76807 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2016 20:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006863 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 431 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Falso alerta de potente terremoto gera pânico em TóquioMon, 01 Aug 2016 18:54:00 +0200.

Um falso alerta prevenindo sobre um terremoto de magnitude 9,1 que ocorreria em Tóquio na tarde desta segunda-feira (1), cancelado depois pela agência meteorológica nacional, gerou momentaneamente pânico entre muitos habitantes da capital j
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Pânico em Tóquio por falso alerta de potente terremotoMon, 01 Aug 2016 17:56:00 +0200.

Um falso alerta prevenindo sobre um terremoto de magnitude 9,1 que ocorreria em Tóquio na tarde desta segunda-feira (1), cancelado depois pela agência meteorológica nacional, gerou momentaneamente pânico entre muitos habitantes da capital j
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False alert of massive earthquake triggers panic in JapanMon, 01 Aug 2016 17:53:00 +0200.

TOKYO — An erroneous alert on Monday (Aug 1) that a massive earthquake had hit the Tokyo area sent many in Japan into a brief panic and disrupted some train services. The Japanese Meteorological Agency sent the alert just after 5pm (4pm, SG
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Japon : les habitants de Tokyo secoués par une fausse alerte de séisme ... Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:17:00 +0200.

N on ce n'est pas une carte interactive pour trouver des Pokémon. Il s'agit de l'application Yurekuru, qui prévient les utilisateurs sur leur téléphone portable en cas de catastrophe naturelle. Ce lundi, une fausse alerte a prévenu les habi
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),