M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Dec 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 1101331
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 49.02 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.789 , 153.3266
Event Date: 19 Dec 2016 19:03 UTC
20 Dec 2016 05:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2016 20:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200082lb 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: 706 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Damiani: "Este problema para Peñarol es un tsunami"Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:17:00 +0100.

La violencia en el fútbol ha sido uno de los grandes problemas tanto para el mundo del deporte como para el gobierno nacional en este 2016 y Peñarol ha sido uno de los equipos involucrados en el tema. Juan Pedro Damiani habló esta mañana so
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Tsunami nad americkým přístavem? Zvláštní úkaz vyvolal senzaci FOTOFri, 23 Dec 2016 12:54:00 +0100.

23.12.2016 , Jiří Novák Mlha nad americkým přístavem. Obyvatelé města Duluth Harbor v americké Minnesotě byli svědky zvláštního přírodního úkazu. Na první pohled to vypadá jako, kdyby se na přístav valila obrovská vlna tsunami. Nad jezerem
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Cutremur în Marea Neagră. Seismul a avut 3.7 grade pe scara RichterFri, 23 Dec 2016 11:55:00 +0100.

Cutremur în Marea Neagră în această dimineață. Seism cu magnitudinea de 3.7 pe scara Richter s-a produs la cinci kilometri adâncime, la ora 06:47, ora României. Potrivit Centrului Seismologic Euro-Mediteranean epicentrul a fost localizat la
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),