M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Dec 2016 22:35 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 1101564
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 13.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.6448 , 153.9281
Event Date: 22 Dec 2016 22:35 UTC
23 Dec 2016 08:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2016 23:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007m50 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: 697 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

Gangamma jatara a big drawMon, 26 Dec 2016 22:07:00 +0100.

Balancing turmeric-smeared steel pots brimming with water, milk and flowers and a lid consisting of a set of puja paraphernalia on their heads, women of Peda Jalaripeta headed towards the sea to offer prayers to goddess Ganga on Monday. Wom
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Indonesians mark tsunami 12 years ago with prayersMon, 26 Dec 2016 22:06:00 +0100.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Thousands of Indonesians prayed for their loved ones at mass graves and mosques on Monday to mark a tsunami which devastated Aceh province 12 years ago today, one of the worst natural disasters in human history. Some
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Bachelet evalúa zona sur de Chile afectada por el sismoMon, 26 Dec 2016 21:55:00 +0100.

| 26 diciembre, 2016 - 2:49 PM Andrea López La presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, viaja este lunes al sur de Chile para evaluar en el terreno los efectos del fuerte sismo de 7,6 grados de magnitud que sacudió a la isla de Chiloé el dom
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Las alertas y el estado actual de la zona de Chiloé tras el terremotoMon, 26 Dec 2016 21:51:00 +0100.

Cerca de 4.000 personas evacuadas en la Región de Los Lagos reportó la Onemi tras dar la alarma de tsunami en las zonas costeras. La indicación era movilizarse hacia las zonas altas por sobre la cota 30. La evacuación misma fue reforzada po
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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),