M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 11 Feb 2017 07:33 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 1105298
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 32.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6898 , 153.626
Event Date: 11 Feb 2017 07:33 UTC
11 Feb 2017 17:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2017 07:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008j59 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 551 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

Civil Defence shake-up to be discussed at cross-party meetingWed, 15 Feb 2017 05:55:00 +0100.

The Government is holding a cross-party meeting to discuss a shake-up of Civil Defence, following criticism of its response to last November's magnitude-7.8 earthquake. Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says wholesale changes are unlike
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¿Minoicos inspiraron la leyenda de la Atlántida?Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:00:00 +0100.

Hace alrededor de 3.600 años, la isla de Thera hoy conocida como Santorini (Grecia) fue sacudida por una de las mayores erupciones volcánicas de las que se tenga registro. Ubicada en el llamado arco Helénico, los científicos sugieren que el
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Preparacion pa participacion na Caribe Wave 2017Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:26:00 +0100.

Na oficina di Calamidad di Aruba, representantenan di Departamento Meteorologico Aruba kende ta encarga cu e coordinacion di Caribe Wave 17 a haci un presentacion na diferente departamento, instancia y organisacion cu lo ta formando parti n
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Japonaise disparue en France. Le suspect clame son innocence au ChiliTue, 14 Feb 2017 16:26:00 +0100.

Le principal suspect dans le meurtre d’une étudiante Japonaise à Besançon a clamé mardi son innocence depuis le Chili. Il est accusé d’avoir tué son ancienne petite amie, dont le corps n’a toujours pas été retrouvé. , soupçonné d’avoir assa
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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),