M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 16 Oct 2017 12:02 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 1123971
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 183.46 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.5793 , 147.366
Event Date: 16 Oct 2017 12:02 UTC
16 Oct 2017 22:02 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2017 12:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000aspq Scaled population (vector) 4.85  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 296 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

18-21 marzo 2018 Istanbul (Turkey) GI4DM 2018 - Geoinformation for Dis ... Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:28:00 +0200.

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Preocupación por el futuro económico de la región separatistaFri, 20 Oct 2017 08:16:00 +0200.

MADRID (LA NACION).- Van de la mano. En la medida en que se agudiza el discurso de la crisis, el de los efectos económicos se potencia al extremo de asociar el impacto de la independencia catalana al de "un suicidio económico", un daño comp
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PNG earthquake no threat to FijiFri, 20 Oct 2017 05:51:00 +0200.

Update: 3:35PM A 5.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Papua New Guinea this afternoon. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 178 kilometres at 2:22pm. It was located 423km North from Port Moresby in PNG, 1447Km northwest from Honiar
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Близ островного государства Тонга в Тихом океане случилось землетрясен ... Fri, 20 Oct 2017 05:23:00 +0200.

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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),