M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Jun 2017 01:21 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 1115138
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 63.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6719 , 153.1697
Event Date: 17 Jun 2017 01:21 UTC
17 Jun 2017 11:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 62000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2017 01:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009n7t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),