M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Jul 2017 17:24 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 1116522
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 49.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0225 , 149.9083
Event Date: 08 Jul 2017 17:24 UTC
09 Jul 2017 03:24 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jul 2017 18:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000987c 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)

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Exposed population

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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),