M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Feb 2017 13:24 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 1106429
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 101.35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9676 , 147.4039
Event Date: 25 Feb 2017 13:24 UTC
25 Feb 2017 23:24 Local
Exposed Population:
290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2017 13:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
us20008meb 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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العلاقات السعودية – الإندونيسية تاريخية ومتطورة في كافة المجالاتWed, 01 Mar 2017 13:04:00 +0100.

المواطن – واس. تشهد العلاقاتُ بين المملكة العربية السعودية وجمهورية إندونيسيا منذ نشأتها عام 1948م تطوراً ونمواً في مختلف المجالات. وتعد العلاقات بين البلدين الشقيقين من الشواهد البارزة على عمق العلاقات ونضوجها التي تتسم بالتطور وتحقيق ما ي
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Expanded US Navy-led relief mission shows 'continued American engageme ... Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:37:00 +0100.

SINGAPORE - An annual United States Navy-led humanitarian mission that provides aid to the Asia-Pacific sets sail for Sri Lanka on Thursday (March 2), the first time it is expanding its operations to South Asia. The added scope of the missi
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Esuberi, tagli contratti ibridi: la bufera si abbatte sulle bancheWed, 01 Mar 2017 11:29:00 +0100.

di Davide Lisetto PORDENONE - È un vero e proprio terremoto - anche se sta avvenendo un po' sotto traccia - quello che ha colpito anche il sistema bancario territoriale . Una autentica rivoluzione nella mappa della presenza di agenzie, fili
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Giappone: terremoto di magnitudo 5.6 vicino centrale di FukushimaWed, 01 Mar 2017 10:04:00 +0100.

: Un terremoto di magnitudo 5.6 si è verificato nel nord-est del Giappone , non lontano dalla centrale nucleare di Fukushima . La scossa è stata avvertita anche a Tokyo. Nella capitale gli edifici hanno oscillato, il sisma è durato più di 3
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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),