M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Mar 2017 05:44 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 1108452
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 80.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2268 , 145.6987
Event Date: 23 Mar 2017 05:44 UTC
23 Mar 2017 15:44 Local
Exposed Population:
430000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Mar 2017 06:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us20008tyu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 290 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Most senior Japanese official in 45 years pays visit to TaiwanMon, 27 Mar 2017 03:09:00 +0200.

TAIPEI – Senior Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Jiro Akama visited Taiwan on Saturday, becoming the most senior government official to visit the island since the two sides severed diplomatic ties in 1972. Although Akama
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Darwin rattled by 5.3 magnitude earthquakeMon, 27 Mar 2017 02:01:00 +0200.

The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) have also reported that there is no tsunami threat. Surrounded by the Maluku Islands of Indonesia and connected to the Pacific Ocean, the Banda Sea is known for its fr
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Cyclone Debbie latest: Wind gusts of 230km/h at landfallMon, 27 Mar 2017 00:31:00 +0200.

Large waves may also develop along the beachfront. The very destructive core of tropical cyclone Debbie is forecast to cross the coast between Rollingstone and Proserpine on Tuesday morning with wind gusts potentially to 230 km/h near the c
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علماء: حفرة على سطح المريخ بسبب "تسونامي" عنيفMon, 27 Mar 2017 00:14:00 +0200.

وقال د. كوستار من جامعة جنوب باريس لـ"BBC"، "وجدنا ترسبات سونامي على امتداد التفرع الثنائي بين النصف الشمالي والنصف الجنوبي من سطح المريخ، مما يدعم فرضية وجود محيط في النصف الشمالي في وقت سابق". وقال العالم ستيف كليفورد "إذا كانت لدينا أدل
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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),