M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Dec 2016 23:34 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 1101717
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -6.17 , 153.7823
Event Date: 24 Dec 2016 23:34 UTC
25 Dec 2016 09:34 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Dec 2016 23:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007mkf 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

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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),