M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 13 Jun 2017 18:02 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 1114956
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 61.95 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3058 , 147.6195
Event Date: 13 Jun 2017 18:02 UTC
14 Jun 2017 04:02 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jun 2017 19:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009m72 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),