M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 11 Apr 2017 16:48 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 1110021
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 49.11 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7263 , 151.4614
Event Date: 11 Apr 2017 16:48 UTC
12 Apr 2017 02:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 72000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2017 17:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008gnm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 199 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Sri Lanka : l'effondrement d'une décharge fait 15 mortsSat, 15 Apr 2017 16:30:00 +0200.

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6.2-magnitude quake rattles northern Chile: USGSSat, 15 Apr 2017 16:28:00 +0200.

By AFP 44 mins ago in World An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale shook northern Chile Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey, but there was no tsunami alert and no immediate report of damage or injuries. The
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Terremoto de 6,2 de magnitude atinge o norte do ChileSat, 15 Apr 2017 16:21:00 +0200.

Um terremoto de 6,2 graus na escala Richter foi sentido neste sábado em três regiões do norte do Chile, sem causar danos ou vítimas e nenhum alerta de tsunami, informaram órgãos oficiais. "Um terremoto de intensidade moderada foi sentido às
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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),