M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Mar 2017 08:43 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 1108601
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 246.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7228 , 154.7295
Event Date: 25 Mar 2017 08:43 UTC
25 Mar 2017 19:43 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2017 09:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us20008uj5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 436 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

SE DESCONOCEN LAS CONSECUENCIAS Activan la alerta por tsunami en la pe ... Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:28:00 +0200.

Las autoridades del Servicio Geofísico de la Academia de Ciencias de Petropávlovsk-Kamchatski han declarado amenaza de tsunami tras haberse registrado un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 ha sacudido este miércoles la península de Kamchatka, ubicad
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Cutremur de 6,6 pe Richter in apropiere de Rusia. A fost emisa alerta ... Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:28:00 +0200.

Un cutremur puternic a avut loc în această dimineaţă în regiunea Kamchatka, în partea estică a Rusiei, fiind emisă o alertă de tsunami. Seismul, cu o magnitudine de 6,6 grade pe scara Richter a avut loc la ora 7.09, ora României la o adânci
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Rusya'da büyük deprem şiddeti kaç?Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:27:00 +0200.

RUSYA'nın doğu ucundaki Kamçatka Yarımadası açıklarında 6.6 büyüklüğünde deprem meydana geldi. ABD Jeolojik Araştırma Kurumu, önce 7.0 büyüklüğünde olduğunu ilan ettiği depremin büyüklüğünü daha sonra 6.6 düzeyine revize etti. Deprem, Asya
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Strong quake of 6.9 magnitude hits Russia’s far eastWed, 29 Mar 2017 08:26:00 +0200.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck near Komandorskiye Ostrava in Russia’s far east on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of about 33 km (20 miles) just off the coast in the Bering Sea
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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),