M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Jul 2017 22:26 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 1116539
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 11.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.8341 , 154.8505
Event Date: 08 Jul 2017 22:26 UTC
09 Jul 2017 08:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jul 2017 00:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000989p 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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Exposição de fotos retrata a região de Tohoku no JapãoWed, 12 Jul 2017 20:58:00 +0200.

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Museu Paranaense abre exposição que mostra TohokuWed, 12 Jul 2017 20:58:00 +0200.

O Museu Paranaense abre no dia 20 (quinta-feira), em Curitiba, a exposição itinerante “Tohoku Através do olhar dos fotógrafos japoneses”. A mostra permanece no local até 13 de agosto, quando seguirá para Manaus (AM). A entrada é gratuita. A
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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),