M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Dec 2016 06:14 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 1101359
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 42.39 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8236 , 153.562
Event Date: 20 Dec 2016 06:14 UTC
20 Dec 2016 16:14 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2016 06:34 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200082q8 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: 611 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Tsunami miracle baby to start form 1Sat, 24 Dec 2016 05:32:00 +0100.

Then and now: Annalmary carrying baby Thulaashi days after she survived the killer waves back in 2004, and 12 years on, Thulaashi trying on her new school uniform with mum’s help. Photo: The Star/ANN. Tsunami 'miracle baby' S. Thulaashi is
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New chapter for tsunami survivorSat, 24 Dec 2016 02:50:00 +0100.

Saturday, 24 December 2016 New chapter for tsunami survivor. by cavina lim Then and now: Annalmary carrying baby Thulaashi days after she survived the killer waves back in 2004, and 12 years on, Thulaashi trying on her new school uniform wi
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Animación grafica todos los terremotos de los últimos 15 años en el mu ... Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:51:00 +0100.

20161223 20:32 Animación grafica todos los terremotos de los últimos 15 años en el mundo Esta animación elaborada por el Pacific Tsunami Warning Center muestra todos los terremotos ocurridos durante los últimos 15 años en el mundo, y grafic
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توقعات بحصول زلزال في أمريكا سيؤدي إلى تدمير نصف العالم في الأيام المق ... Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:40:00 +0100.

هذا الخبر نشر العام 2015 وقالوا ان زلزالا سيضرب اميركا وذلك ضمن توقعات نهاية السنة ولم يحصل شيئ لا زلزال ولا غيره مما يعني انه لا يستطيع احد ان يتوقع بحدوث الزلازل وانها توقعات من اجل الشهرة لا اكثر وعلى راس السنة هذه ايضا سيخرج من يتوقع بح
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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),