M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Feb 2017 14:59 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 1106036
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 57.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.0203 , 153.5874
Event Date: 20 Feb 2017 14:59 UTC
21 Feb 2017 00:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 10000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2017 16:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008kwg 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 424 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, combinaisons, gants et bottes couvrent encore intégralement ceux qui oeuvrent dans les bâtiments des
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Philippines: Philippines: NDRRMC scales up preps for magnitude 7.2 ear ... Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:29:00 +0100.

QUEZON CITY, Feb. 24 - National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) members convene to discuss plans and preparations for a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Thursdays at the NDRRMC Conference Room, Camp General Emilio Aguinal
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Venha o tsunamiFri, 24 Feb 2017 06:35:00 +0100.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Todos ainda nos lembramos dos tsunamis que atingiram a Mal�sia, a Indon�sia e a Tail�ndia, em 2004, e o Jap�o, em 2011. Alguns nasceram de um terremoto. Outros come�aram por um vazamento da mar�, que deixava a seco em minut
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POST SCRIPTFri, 24 Feb 2017 05:55:00 +0100.

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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),