M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Dec 2016 14:28 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 1101610
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 23.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4648 , 153.2911
Event Date: 23 Dec 2016 14:28 UTC
24 Dec 2016 00:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1213 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Dec 2016 14:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007m9k 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

Articles: 347 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

12 years on, 400 tsunami victims still to be identifiedTue, 27 Dec 2016 14:08:00 +0100.

In this Deember. 28, 2004 image made from video, a man's body is removed by recovery workers from wreckage. Picture: AP Photo/Jerry Harmer. Bangkok - At least 400 victims of Asia’s tsunami – which killed 226 000 people – remain unidentifie
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Familias damnificadas en Quellón: “Sentimos un ruido muy fuerte, luego ... Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:07:00 +0100.

Dos casas. Dos tragedias. El hogar de Natalia Mella, ubicado en la costanera de Quellón y que se desplomó con los 7.6 grados del domingo, se ha transformado en uno de los lugares “símbolos” del terremoto. Visitado por curiosos y por autorid
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La lección del último terremoto en ChileTue, 27 Dec 2016 14:02:00 +0100.

El sismo de 7.6 grados que sacudió el último domingo a una región del sur de Chile, sin dejar fallecidos, es una clara muestra de cómo el vecino país del sur ha sabido prevenir los daños de los terremotos y afrontar este tipo de eventos nat
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«Лахта центр». Умеют ли в России строить небоскребы?Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:54:00 +0100.

Г оворят, что именно небоскребы виноваты в мировых экономических кризисах. Строящийся в Санкт-Петербурге 462-метровый Лахта центр обвиняли также в уничтожении редких клопов, восковника болотного, перелетных гусей и в возможном цунами в Финс
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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),