M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Feb 2017 11:57 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 1105382
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 83.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4535 , 145.3919
Event Date: 12 Feb 2017 11:57 UTC
12 Feb 2017 21:57 Local
Exposed Population:
990000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2017 12:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.7 -0.7
us20008jbs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),