M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Mar 2017 18:50 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 1109033
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5574 , 151.8415
Event Date: 30 Mar 2017 18:50 UTC
31 Mar 2017 04:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2017 20:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008dci 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.
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),