M 5.9 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Nov 2016 19:03 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 1097299
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 55.35 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1151 , 148.6498
Event Date: 01 Nov 2016 19:03 UTC
02 Nov 2016 05:03 Local
Exposed Population: About 62000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Nov 2016 16:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100073jd 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

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),