M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 01 May 2017 03:09 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 1111735
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 27.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9071 , 151.1629
Event Date: 01 May 2017 03:09 UTC
01 May 2017 13:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 95000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 May 2017 03:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008mck 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: 292 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Putin seeding ‘mole nukes’ in the sea to drown America in tsunami, Rus ... Fri, 05 May 2017 01:09:00 +0200.

Russian Colonel Viktor Baranetz A former Russian defence ministry spokesman has made an extraordinary claim that Russia is burying nuclear weapons off the coast of America. Colonel Viktor Baranetz claims that the ‘mole nukes’ would be used
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Sbarchiamo i naufraghi anche a Nizza e a MaltaFri, 05 May 2017 00:47:00 +0200.

T orniamo ad aprile 2015: al largo delle coste libiche si ribalta un peschereccio con più di 700 migranti. Si solleva l’indignazione generale e nel Mediterraneo viene messa in campo l’operazione Triton, sotto il controllo di Frontex, l’agen
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Despite ban, police cars continue to use beaconsFri, 05 May 2017 00:09:00 +0200.

Nagpur: Despite a national ban, beacons (red, amber and blue) continue to lure the officials, especially of the Nagpur city police. The enforcement agency — Regional Transport Office-- is looking the other way. In its May 1 notification, th
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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),