M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Dec 2017 18:57 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 1128941
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 156.32 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8965 , 154.7359
Event Date: 17 Dec 2017 18:57 UTC
18 Dec 2017 05:57 Local
Exposed Population:
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c5fn Scaled population (vector) 5.12  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 149 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

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Piñera y Bachelet: de la foto en Caburgua a la “relación republicana”Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:02:00 +0100.

Eran las 20.12 horas de ayer cuando la Presidenta Bachelet llamó por teléfono desde La Moneda a Sebastián Piñera para felicitarlo por su triunfo. “Quería desearle una muy buena gestión en su mandato. Usted y yo queremos a Chile, queremos lo
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Maestro Fiasconaro, il panettone è ormai un dolce diffuso e imitato in tutto il mondo. Esiste il rischio concreto che si possa perdere per strada la sua unicità? Crede sia abbastanza tutelato? Assolutamente no. Noi italiani dovremmo tutelar
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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),