M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Mar 2017 09:07 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 1108603
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 94.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.2068 , 145.3762
Event Date: 25 Mar 2017 09:07 UTC
25 Mar 2017 19:07 Local
Exposed Population:
530000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2017 09:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.7 -0.7
us20008uj6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 455 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

زلزال بقوة 6.6 درجات يضرب شرقي روسيا وتحذير من تسوناميWed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:00 +0200.

ضرب زلزال بقوة 6.6 درجات بمقياس ريختر، منطقة كامتشاتكا أقصى شرقي روسيا صباح اليوم. وأصدرت السلطات تحذيرا من إمكانية تكون موجات مد عاتية تسونامي، بحسب ما ذكرته وكالة سبوتنيك الروسية للأنباء. وأفادت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية ، أن مركز ال
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Declarada la alerta por tsunami en Kamchatka tras un terremoto de 6,9Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:00 +0200.

Vista de un mapa de actividad sísmica que muestra el epicentro, marcado con una estrella, del terremoto de magnitud 6,6 en el Krai de Kamchatka. USGS HANDOUT EFE. Un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 en la escala abierta de Richter ha sacudido est
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Alerta de tsunami tras un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 en la península ru ... Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:47:00 +0200.

Internacional Las seis noticias que debes conocer hoy, miércoles 29 de marzo Alerta de tsunami tras un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 en la península rusa de Kamchatka. Por el momento no han trascendido informaciones sobre víctimas o daños mater
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Rusya'da deprem oldu: 6.6 büyüklüğünde...Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:45:00 +0200.

Rusya'nın doğusunda bulunan Kamçatka Yarımadası açıklarında deprem meydana geldi. Henüz ölü veya yaralı olduğu konusunda bir bilgi yok. Deprem yerin yaklaşık 22.8 kilometre derinliğinde gerçekleşti. Depremin Pasifik Okyanusu yakınlarında ge
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),