M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 11 Feb 2017 22:53 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 1105344
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.5901 , 151.2023
Event Date: 11 Feb 2017 22:53 UTC
12 Feb 2017 08:53 Local
Exposed Population:
About 34000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2017 23:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008j8m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 428 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Qatar Metrology Department urges residents to ignore...Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:22:00 +0100.

Doha: Qatar Metrology Department has urged residents to not pay heed to social media rumours of tsunami hitting a GCC country. Please follow latest warnings regarding the current unstable weather situation via our official social media acco
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ShelterBox NZ announces new Vice Regal PatronWed, 15 Feb 2017 20:37:00 +0100.

ShelterBox New Zealand is delighted and honoured to announce that Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand, has graciously accepted an invitation to become our Vice-Regal Patron. Dame
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Alerta de Tsunami descartada tras sismo en ManabíWed, 15 Feb 2017 19:21:00 +0100.

El movimiento telúrico llegó a los 4.9 grados en escala de Richter El sector de Jipijapa en la provincia de Manabí se registró un movimiento telúrico a las 23h12 e magnitud de 4.9 en la escala de Richter y a 10 km de profundidad. Según repo
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Rennemoulin-Villepreux-Chavenay : le ru de Gally sera aménagé pour évi ... Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:21:00 +0100.

É viter qu’un drame humain puisse se produire. Voilà l’enjeu principal de la renaturation du ru de Gally, qui fera dans les prochains jours l’objet d’une enquête publique à Villepreux, Chavenay, ainsi qu’à Rennemoulin. En 2001, ce village d
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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),