M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 28 Jan 2017 04:14 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 1104240
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6483 , 151.8145
Event Date: 28 Jan 2017 04:14 UTC
28 Jan 2017 14:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 61000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2017 04:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007vwi Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 525 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Mapa do passado dos sismos em Portugal esclarece riscos no futuroTue, 31 Jan 2017 23:12:00 +0100.

Quando? “Não sou capaz de dizer. É impossível saber isso com exactidão”, admite o geofísico. E onde? O que o mapa que a equipa de investigadores da Universidade de Évora nos diz é que há locais onde um eventual sismo poderá surgir com mais
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Wanna Marchi e figlia: 'Nel kit dell'isola dei famosi ci sono i preser ... Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:47:00 +0100.

Non apprezzano il look scelto dalla conduttrice Alessia Marcuzzi, e sospettano in un 'trucco'. Gossip News : Wanna Marchi e la figlia Stefania Nobile attaccano la Marcuzzi e MediasetSulla conduttrice dell'Isola dei famosi inoltre commentano
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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),