M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Jul 2017 03:23 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 1116624
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 97.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.0606 , 151.2872
Event Date: 10 Jul 2017 03:23 UTC
10 Jul 2017 13:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 81000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jul 2017 05:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us100098gu 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: 456 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

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Colegios del Callao participaron del III Simulacro EscolarThu, 13 Jul 2017 23:59:00 +0200.

Con el fin de promover la organización para la ejecución de las medidas previstas en caso de un sismo de gran magnitud, la Institución Educativa José Gálvez Barrenechea del distrito de La Punta participó del tercer simulacro escolar naciona
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Now Indonesia Wants to Hide Its FloggingsThu, 13 Jul 2017 23:27:00 +0200.

The authorities in Aceh – Indonesia’s only province that implements full Sharia (Islamic law) – clearly feel stung by the international they generated when two in May. Their solution , it appears, is to put an end to public floggings. Inst
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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.
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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),