M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Apr 2017 09:39 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 1110856
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3996 , 152.2923
Event Date: 22 Apr 2017 09:39 UTC
22 Apr 2017 19:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2017 10:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008jra Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 633 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Ministro japonês pede demissão após comentário ofensivo sobre tsunami ... Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:40:00 +0200.

Ministro da Reconstrução do Japão, Masahiro Imamura, foi sorte o desastre do dia 11 de março de 2011 atingir o nordeste do país, em vez da área metropolitana de Tóquio. Masayoshi Yoshino assumiu a pasta. Envolvido por jornalistas, o minist
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09:22 | Monde Tsunami au Japon: Le ministre de la Reconstruction pouss ... Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:39:00 +0200.

Tsunami au Japon: Le ministre de la Reconstruction démissionne après des propos choquants. JAPON Masahiro Imamura, qui n’en est pas à sa première bourde, avait jugé bien que le tsunami soit arrivé dans le nord-est et non à Tokyo Le ministr
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No se reportan víctimas tras sismo de 6,9 grados Richter en ChileWed, 26 Apr 2017 09:36:00 +0200.

SANTIAGO, 24 abr (Xinhua) -- Un sismo que alcanzó una magnitud de 6,9 grados en la escala de Richter sacudió este lunes la regiones de Valparaíso y la Región Metropolitana de Santiago, sin causar víctimas de acuerdo a reportes preliminares.
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Ministro japonês pede demissão após comentário sobre tsunami Masahiro ... Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:36:00 +0200.

TÓQUIO - O ministro japonês de Reconstrução, Masahiro Imamura, apresentou nesta quarta-feira, 26, sua demissão e foi imediatamente substituído, um dia após ter feito um comentário considerado ofensivo sobre o terremoto e o tsunami de 2011.
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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),