M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 16 Jun 2017 06:17 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 1115097
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.0306 , 146.8278
Event Date: 16 Jun 2017 06:17 UTC
16 Jun 2017 16:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jun 2017 08:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009mxc 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

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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),