M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Mar 2017 21:20 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 1108149
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.9236 , 142.0383
Event Date: 18 Mar 2017 21:20 UTC
19 Mar 2017 07:20 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2017 21:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008t2l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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.
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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),