M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Oct 2016 07:26 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 1096209
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.961 , 147.6964
Event Date: 23 Oct 2016 07:26 UTC
23 Oct 2016 17:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4337 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Oct 2016 07:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007g6t 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: 395 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Dementia risk may rise in the wake of disasterThu, 27 Oct 2016 07:00:00 +0200.

A police officer searches for missing people of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami along the coast side, Fukushima prefecture March 11, 2014. — Reuters pic TOKYO, Oct 27 — Elderly people forced out of their homes and separated from t
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Japan court orders damages for pupils' tsunami deathsThu, 27 Oct 2016 05:24:00 +0200.

The plaintiffs had demanded that Ishinomaki and the larger Miyagi prefecture of which it is a part pay a total of 2.3 billion yen in compensation, arguing that their children would have survived if they had evacuated to a hill just behind t
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¿Por qué participar en el Simulacro Nacional de Emergencias?Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:23:00 +0200.

La Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres espera la participación este miércoles de 714 municipios del país en el quinto Simulacro Nacional, que se realiza con el fin de preparar a los colombianos frente a escenarios de rie
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Pese a riesgo de tsunami Tumaco no participó en simulacro de evacuació ... Thu, 27 Oct 2016 04:54:00 +0200.

Hasta el mediodía la Gobernación de Nariño reportó más de 150.000 personas evacuadas en 63 municipios en desarrollo del simulacro. Como lamentable calificó el director de Gestión del Riesgo Cristian Ortega la negativa de las autoridades de
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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),