M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Sep 2017 23:12 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 1121697
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 587.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6453 , 149.5394
Event Date: 17 Sep 2017 23:12 UTC
18 Sep 2017 09:12 Local
Exposed Population:
About 23000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2017 23:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000apnm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 185 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Terremotos: cinco datos sorprendentes que quizás no conocíasThu, 21 Sep 2017 23:01:00 +0200.

Las lagunas, los canales, los lagos y otras fuentes de agua estancada pueden expulsar un olor desagradable y aumentar su temperatura antes de un terremoto, debido a los gases subterráneos que se liberan a medida que se desplazan las placas
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Mudanças na duração do dia e aviso pelo cheiro da água: 5...Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:38:00 +0200.

Dados coletados desde 1990 indicam que, a cada ano, são registrados, em média, 17 terremotos de magnitude superior a 7 e pelo menos um tremor acima de magnitude 8, segundo o serviço geológico dos EUA. Mas a grande maioria dos tremores passa
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La capture d'écran de ce nouveau ministre suisse va faire paniquer les ... Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:30:00 +0200.

INSOLITE - Voir une dizaine de notifications en attente sur votre téléphone vous angoisse? Alors surtout, ne regardez pas la capture d'écran partagée ce jeudi 21 septembre par Ignazio Cassis , fraîchement arrivé au sein du gouvernement suis
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Fears rise as killer quakes hit the Pacific 'Ring Of Fire'Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:13:00 +0200.

California, on the other hand, sits between two plates that rub each other horizontally. Seismologists admitted the cluster of quakes seen this week, along with others near Tonga (5.0), Taiwan (5.3), and Papua New Guinea (5.2), on the same
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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),