M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Mar 2017 04:50 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 1106808
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 68.14 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8136 , 147.1366
Event Date: 02 Mar 2017 04:50 UTC
02 Mar 2017 14:50 Local
Exposed Population:
210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2017 05:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100086fu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 354 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

6.5 magnitude earthquake hits off Papua New GuineaMon, 06 Mar 2017 04:25:00 +0100.

SYDNEY, March 6 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude struck off 32 km northwest of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea (USGS) on Monday. According to USGS, the earthquake struck at 0947 local time AEDT. The quake struck the tropical island nat
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Scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 6.5 in Papua Nuova GuineaMon, 06 Mar 2017 04:22:00 +0100.

(Di lunedì 6 marzo 2017) Per il Pacific Tsunami Warning Center non c’#8217è allarme tsunami. Il servizio geologico statunitense (Usgs) stabilisce che il sisma di magnitudo 6.5 ha avuto il suo epicentro vicino all’#8217isola New Britain e l’
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Terremoto di 6,5 in Papua Nuova GuineaMon, 06 Mar 2017 04:22:00 +0100.

(Di lunedì 6 marzo 2017) (Ultime Notizie - Ultim'ora) Un Terremoto di magnitudo 6,5 ha colpito la Papua Nuova Guinea . Non c'è un allarme tsunami secondo il Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Il servizio geologico statunitense (Usgs) riferisce
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Terremoti: scossa 6,5 Papua Nuova GuineaMon, 06 Mar 2017 04:00:00 +0100.

ROMA - Un terremoto di magnitudo 6,5 ha colpito la Papua Nuova Guinea ma non c'e' un allarme tsunami secondo il Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Il servizio geologico statunitense (Usgs) riferisce che il sisma nel paese del Pacifico del sud
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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),