M 5.3 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Mar 2017 07:57 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 1108996
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5774 , 151.8071
Event Date: 30 Mar 2017 07:57 UTC
30 Mar 2017 17:57 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2017 08:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008d8n Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 285 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

TALKBACK: Preparation key in the event of an earthquakeMon, 03 Apr 2017 06:24:00 +0200.

There were two major quakes in 2015 both of which were felt here and Latchman revealed there had been more than 400 aftershocks. “Based on what has been occurring in the region, based on some of the research that we have done at our centre,
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1 مصرع 250 شخصا ردما تحت التراب بعد إنهيارات أرضية في كولومبياMon, 03 Apr 2017 05:40:00 +0200.

Le cyclone Debbie les inondations glissement de terrain feu de forêt en Australie en Colombie en Pérou en Indonésie en Chili des punitions d'ALLAH aux non musulmans de se convertir a l'islam et aux musulmans d'appliquer le Coran a 100% pour
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Dominican Republic earthquake: Tremor hits northeast of Santo DomingoMon, 03 Apr 2017 05:11:00 +0200.

FOR LIVE UPDATES: The earthquake, which struck at 10:45 p.m. local time on Sunday, was centered about 15 kilometers (10 miles) northwest of Hato Mayor del Rey, the capital of Hato Mayor Province. It struck at a depth of about 56 miles (90 k
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People in Kamchatka Peninsula feel quakes of up to 2.0 points on Richt ... Mon, 03 Apr 2017 02:09:00 +0200.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, April 3. /TASS/. Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative center of the Kamchatka territory felt on earthquake on Monday that occurred at the junction of the Pacific Ocean and the Avacha Bay, a spo
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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),