M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Feb 2017 22:19 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 1105580
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 85.24 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.834 , 154.627
Event Date: 14 Feb 2017 22:19 UTC
15 Feb 2017 09:19 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2017 22:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
us20008jtf 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: 514 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

“Colau es quien está más cerca de ser una líder de la talla de los vie ... Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:09:00 +0100.

ERC amenaza la hegemonía soberanista de CDC, siglas mutadas a PDECat tras el caso Pujol. Ciudadanos ha fagocitado al PSC y al PP y es la principal fuerza de la oposición. La CUP se ha erigido en partido clave en el proceso independentista.
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“Colau es quien está más cerca de ser una líder de la talla de los vie ... Sat, 18 Feb 2017 21:58:00 +0100.

ERC amenaza la hegemonía soberanista de CDC, siglas mutadas a PDECat tras el caso Pujol. Ciudadanos ha fagocitado al PSC y al PP y es la principal fuerza de la oposición. La CUP se ha erigido en partido clave en el proceso independentista.
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Mundo Terremoto atinge norte do ChileSat, 18 Feb 2017 19:57:00 +0100.

Um terremoto de 6,4 graus na escala Richter foi registrado neste sábado em três regiões do norte do Chile, sem que até o momento fossem reportadas vítimas ou tivesse sido ativado o alerta de tsunami, informaram órgãos oficiais. "Um tremor
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Terremoto de 6,4 graus atinge o norte de ChileSat, 18 Feb 2017 19:44:00 +0100.

Um terremoto de 6,4 graus na escala Richter foi registrado neste sábado em três regiões do norte do Chile, sem que até o momento fossem reportadas vítimas ou tivesse sido ativado o alerta de tsunami, informaram órgãos oficiais. "Um tremor d
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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),