M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Aug 2016 17:39 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 1092770
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 27.96 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3798 , 148.8611
Event Date: 27 Aug 2016 17:39 UTC
28 Aug 2016 03:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52707 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2016 21:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006ul9 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: 705 | About casualties: 54 | Last hour: 0

11 muertos y tres desaparecidos deja tifón Lyonrock en JapónWed, 31 Aug 2016 17:07:00 +0200.

Tokio, 31 de agosto 2016 (Notimex).- Las autoridades japonesas buscan a tres personas desaparecidas luego del paso del tifón Lyonrock por el norte y noreste del país, donde suman 11 muertos, nueve de ellos de la tercera edad. La tormenta to
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Tifón Lionrock deja 11 muertos y tres desaparecidos en JapónWed, 31 Aug 2016 16:27:00 +0200.

Tokio, Japón.- Zócalo Las autoridades japonesas buscan a tres personas desaparecidas luego del paso del tifón Lionrock por el norte y noreste del país, donde suman 11 muertos, nueve de ellos de la tercera edad. La tormenta tocó tierra la ví
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Terremoto, il Papa crea un nuovo dicastero per rafforzare l'aiuto ai t ... Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:20:00 +0200.

Città del Vaticano - Nella riforma della curia vaticana un posto di tutto rispetto Papa Francesco lo ha ritagliato per i terremotati. Si tratta di una attenzione che il Vaticano già esercitava tramite il pontificio consiglio Cor Unum, ma ch
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Tifone si abbatte sul Giappone, 11 morti e diversi dispersiWed, 31 Aug 2016 16:16:00 +0200.

Roma, 31 ago. (askanews) - S'aggrava il bilancio delle vittime e dei danni provocati in Giappone dal passaggio del Tifone numero 10 (Lionrock). Secondo quanto hanno riferito le autorità preposte ai soccorsi, sono almeno 11 i morti. Tra ques
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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),