M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Aug 2017 12:54 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 1119556
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5788 , 153.0211
Event Date: 18 Aug 2017 12:54 UTC
18 Aug 2017 22:54 Local
Exposed Population:
About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2017 14:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9cj 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 304 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Bursa Karacabey böyle yağış görmediTue, 22 Aug 2017 12:42:00 +0200.

Bursa’da beklenen sağanak yağış sabah saatlerinde etkisini gösterdi. Karacabey ilçesine bağlı Yeniköy mevkiinde sokaklar göle dönerken, birçok araç sular altında kaldı. Bazı vatandaşlar da Yeniköy’de ilk defa böyle bir yağış gördüklerini di
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Terremoto Ischia: Borrelli, 2600 sfollatiTue, 22 Aug 2017 12:35:00 +0200.

Il monte, infatti, dal 1300, data della ultima eruzione, si è innalzato di 300 metri e questo è un chiaro segnale che la camera magmatica si stia riempiendo. Secondo Bertolaso, inoltre, il vulcano su cui sorge Ischia è decisamente più peric
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Fukushima reactor ‘ice wall’ nearly finishedTue, 22 Aug 2017 12:34:00 +0200.

Reporters and Tokyo Electric Power Co workers look up the unit 4 reactor building during a media tour at TEPCO’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture in Japan on June 12, 2013. — AFP pic TOKYO, Aug 22
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Fukushima reactor 'ice wall' nearly finishedTue, 22 Aug 2017 12:23:00 +0200.

TOKYO: Fukushima's operator on Tuesday (Aug 22) started freezing the last section of a US$320 million ice wall designed to combat widespread water contamination at the site of the worst nuclear accident in a generation. Tokyo Electric Power
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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),