M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Aug 2017 19:54 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 1119695
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 84.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.9598 , 153.8192
Event Date: 20 Aug 2017 19:54 UTC
21 Aug 2017 05:54 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2017 20:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000a9zq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),