M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Aug 2016 21:12 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 1092955
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 14.82 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4544 , 153.157
Event Date: 30 Aug 2016 21:12 UTC
31 Aug 2016 07:12 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1724 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2016 22:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ivz 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1366 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

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Expert plays down Tepco president’s order not to use the term ‘meltdow ... Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:47:00 +0200.

The head of a panel of international nuclear experts Friday played down the importance of the decision by Tokyo Electric to not use the term “core meltdown” in describing the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex in the early day
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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),