M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Aug 2016 07:54 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 1092072
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 55.03 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2447 , 149.9791
Event Date: 18 Aug 2016 07:54 UTC
18 Aug 2016 17:54 Local
Exposed Population:
129486 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2016 08:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006en6 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: 424 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Abugattas sobre Línea 2: Hicieron tramo 1A para que Humala salga elogi ... Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:13:00 +0200.

. El congresista afirmó que en un inicio se trató de 24 tramos; sin embargo, se hizo una modificación para que el expresidente pueda inaugurarlo En abril de 2014 Ollanta Humala junto al entonces ministro de Transportes y Comunicaciones, C
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Papua New Guinea: Living on the frontlineMon, 22 Aug 2016 07:05:00 +0200.

Mama Bii is a single mother. Her dream is to educate her only son and give him a brighter future. She was close to realizing that plan – her son is in his final school year – until this year’s flood devastated all her crop and the only fert
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حكاية الجميلة والطابور الخامسMon, 22 Aug 2016 05:32:00 +0200.

بدأتُها في المقال السابق وأضع بعض التفاصيل هنا.. وأهم ما لحظتُه أن بعض الجمال نقمة، ومثلما الجمال نسبي، لا يمكن أن نضع تعريفاً أو رسماً لما هو جميل، فلكل عين بصيرة، ولكن بعض الصفات متفق على أنها مؤشر جمال، وهذه ما امتلكتها كلها الفتاة مثال
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Sismo de magnitud 6,0 sacude Japón: no hay alerta de tsunami 08:44 El ... Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:08:00 +0200.

Publicado por Carolina Reyes El sismo de magnitud 6,0 se percibió este sábado tras haber registrado el viernes otro movimiento telúrico de mediana intensidad, pero las autoridades informaron que hasta el momento no hay ningún reporte de per
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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.
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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),