M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Aug 2017 20:30 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 1119136
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 11.87 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8046 , 153.5214
Event Date: 12 Aug 2017 20:30 UTC
13 Aug 2017 06:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2017 21:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a7na Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),