M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 05 Mar 2017 15:48 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 1107095
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 53.75 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1617 , 148.9734
Event Date: 05 Mar 2017 15:48 UTC
06 Mar 2017 01:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 63000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2017 16:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000874r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 394 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Cancer cases in Fukushima 'cannot be linked to radiation'Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:34:00 +0100.

The 185 cases of thyroid cancer found in youngsters in the Japanese region hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster cannot be linked to radiation, doctors have said. A team of doctors from Fukushima Medical University conducting a health survey of
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Los jabalíes salvajes toman FukushimaThu, 09 Mar 2017 15:30:00 +0100.

El peligro nuclear ha pasado en Fukushima, según las autoridades, pero una inesperada presencia pone ahora en duda el regreso de los antiguos habitantes del área. Se trata de cientos de jabalíes salvajes que han salido de los bosques y ahor
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13:56 Cancer cases in Fukushima cannot be linked to radiation, say doc ... Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:21:00 +0100.

A team of doctors from Fukushima Medical University conducting a health survey of Fukushima residents found 185 cases of malignant or suspected thyroid cancer in children. Ongoing thyroid checks are being done in phases on the 380,000 peop
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Fukušima: Divlje svinje se raširile po gradu, lovci pozvani u pomoć; p ... Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:20:00 +0100.

Fukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns. 9 March 2017 Last updated at 10:37 GMT. Hunters have been called in to deal with hundreds of wild boars who are living in evacuated Japanese towns in the Fukushima area. The area was
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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),