M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Sep 2017 09:42 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 1122297
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 63.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3939 , 154.0023
Event Date: 25 Sep 2017 09:42 UTC
25 Sep 2017 19:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 78000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Sep 2017 10:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000au8b Scaled population (vector) 4.21  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 601 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

These critters hitchhiked across the PacificFri, 29 Sep 2017 09:33:00 +0200.

WASHINGTON — Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, researchers reported Thursday. It is the larges
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Mindestens 15 Tote bei Massenpanik in MumbaiFri, 29 Sep 2017 09:24:00 +0200.

Auf dem Oktoberfest 2017 will man gesehen werden. Es gibt aber Gäste, die lieber inkognito bleiben. Auch Geheimdienstler treffen sich auf der Münchner Wiesn. Der BND lud … Geheim-Treff: BND lädt Spitzel auf Staatskosten zum Oktoberfest ein
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Seefahrt - Tsunami: Zahlreiche Tierarten auf Plastikmüll von Japan bis ... Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:13:00 +0200.

Forscher rekonstruieren ganz neuen Ausbreitungsweg: Mindestens 289 Spezies haben so den Pazifik überquert. Washington/Tokio – Wenn Landtiere den Weg über das Meer gefunden und sich von Insel zu Insel oder gar von Kontinent zu Kontinent ausg
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Un ‘arca de Noé’ de residuos cruzó el Pacífico tras el tsunami japonésFri, 29 Sep 2017 09:08:00 +0200.

En marzo de 2011, después de sufrir un terremoto de magnitud 9, la costa de Japón fue devastada por un tsunami con olas de más de 38 metros de altura, dejando miles de muertos e incontables daños materiales, en especial en la central nuclea
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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),