M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Mar 2017 16:51 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 1106806
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 55.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2606 , 148.7766
Event Date: 01 Mar 2017 16:51 UTC
02 Mar 2017 02:51 Local
Exposed Population:
About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2017 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008609 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 280 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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UPDATE. Alertă de TSUNAMI, în urma SEISMULUI cu magnitudinea 7,4 pe sc ... Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0100.

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Tonga’s Tsunami Warning System ‘Inadequate’: Meteorology DirectorSun, 05 Mar 2017 15:52:00 +0100.

Current SMS messaging system doesn’t reach everyone. By Ueretan Bauro. NUKU‘ALOFA, Tonga (Matangi Tonga, July 22, 2015) – Tonga’s tsunami warning system is inadequate to respond to a tsunami that might be generated by a local earthquake, To
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In Pictures: Palestinian schoolchildren fly kites in solidarity with J ... Sun, 05 Mar 2017 15:27:00 +0100.

Palestinian schoolchildren fly kites in a show of solidarity with the Japanese people during an event organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) marking the sixth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that le
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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),