M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Jun 2017 11:07 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 1115149
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 42.65 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.934 , 149.8909
Event Date: 17 Jun 2017 11:07 UTC
17 Jun 2017 21:07 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2017 11:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009n9j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 690 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

4 presumed dead after Greenland tsunamiWed, 21 Jun 2017 09:59:00 +0200.

COPENHAGEN — Authorities in Greenland say four people who were reported missing after a tsunami flooded a village on the Arctic island’s west coast are presumed dead. Police spokesman Lars Kirkegaard said Tuesday they are three adults a
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Four Presumed Dead After Greenland TsunamiWed, 21 Jun 2017 09:56:00 +0200.

COPENHAGEN — Authorities in Greenland say four people who were reported missing after a tsunami flooded a village on the Arctic island's west coast are presumed dead. Police spokesman Lars Kirkegaard said Tuesday they are three adults and o
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Experts uncertain on cause of Greenland disasterWed, 21 Jun 2017 09:40:00 +0200.

The underlying cause of the landslide which has caused floods, missing people and evacuations in western Greenland remains uncertain more than three days after the event. While residents in the landslide-hit area of western Greenland remai
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Разрушительная сила воды: самые страшные цунами в историиWed, 21 Jun 2017 09:17:00 +0200.

А где упоминание о цунами в Северо-Курильске 5 ноября 1952-го года? Цунами было вызвано мощным землетрясением произошедшим 5 ноября в Тихом океане недалеко от южной оконечности Камчатского полуострова с магнитудой 8,3 по шкале Рихтера. Его
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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),