M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Dec 2016 23:17 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 1101346
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 38.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5279 , 153.038
Event Date: 19 Dec 2016 23:17 UTC
20 Dec 2016 09:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1108 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2016 23:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200082na 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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Latest media headlines

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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),