M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Sep 2017 22:36 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 1121963
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.1396 , 148.002
Event Date: 20 Sep 2017 22:36 UTC
21 Sep 2017 08:36 Local
Exposed Population:
About 26000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2017 22:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000as6n Scaled population (vector) 4.11  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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),