M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jan 2017 03:47 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 1103924
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0735 , 148.9399
Event Date: 24 Jan 2017 03:47 UTC
24 Jan 2017 13:47 Local
Exposed Population:
About 63000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2017 04:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007v4b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 503 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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TOKYO. The number of foreign workers in Japan surpassed 1 million for the first time last year, as the labor-strapped country struggles to find enough Japanese workers. Slightly over a million foreigners from countries such as China and Vie
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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),