M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Mar 2017 10:09 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 1106824
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 47.87 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3973 , 155.1973
Event Date: 02 Mar 2017 10:09 UTC
02 Mar 2017 21:09 Local
Exposed Population:
130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2017 10:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100086gr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 377 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Papua Yeni Gine'de 6,3 büyüklüğünde depremMon, 06 Mar 2017 09:38:00 +0100.

ABD Jeolojik Araştırmaları Merkezi (USGS), merkez üssü Papua Yeni Gine'nin Kandrian kentinin 32 kilometre batısı olan depremin yerin 31,1 kilometre altında kaydedildiğini açıkladı. Depremde can ve mal kaybı olmadığı bildirildi. Pasifik Tsun
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Terremoto Papua Nuova Guinea, scossa magnitudo 6.5: nessun allarme tsu ... Mon, 06 Mar 2017 09:34:00 +0100.

PORT MORESBY – Un terremoto di magnitudo 6,5 ha colpito la Papua Nuova Guinea, a nord dell’Australia, ma non c’è un allarme tsunami secondo il Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Il servizio geologico statunitense ( Usgs ) riferisce che il sism
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Gazzeli çocuklar Japonya'daki felaketi unutmadıMon, 06 Mar 2017 09:20:00 +0100.

ARKADAŞINA GÖNDER Gazzeli çocuklar Japonya'daki felaketi unutmadı * Birden fazla kişiye göndermek için, mail adresleri arasına “ ; ” koyunuz Gazzeli çocuklar Japonya'daki felaketi unutmadı. Gazzeli çocuklar Japonya'daki felaketi unutmadı
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زلزال بشدة 6.5 درجات يضرب بابوا غينيا الجديدةMon, 06 Mar 2017 09:12:00 +0100.

ضرب زلزال بلغت شدته 6.5 درجات على مقياس ريشتر، الاثنين، بابوا غينيا الجديدة، دون أن ترد أنباء عن سقوط ضحايا أو أضرار مادية جراء الهزة الأرضية القوية لحد الآن. وقعت الهزة على عمق 28 كيلومترا بالقرب من جزيرة نيو بريتين، حسبما أعلن مركز المس
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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),