M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Jul 2018 11:16 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 1151147
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 65.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8769 , 153.3499
Event Date: 22 Jul 2018 11:16 UTC
22 Jul 2018 21:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 13000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2018 11:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gb59 Scaled population (vector) 3.69  
  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: 10 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

20 years since one of the Pacific's worst natural disastersTue, 24 Jul 2018 05:03:00 +0200.

It's 20 years since a horrific tsunami which struck part of the Papua New Guinea coast of West Sepik province, killing about 2,200 people. The tsunami, with waves estimated as high as 14 metres washed across Sissano Lagoon, where most of th
...(more)
Business News : Ok Tedi pays out K100 million in dividend [23/07/2018 ... Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:04:00 +0200.

The Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) board paid out K100 million (US$30.6 million) as dividend to its shareholders last week Friday. In announcing the payout, OTML board chairman Sir Moi Avei also cautioned shareholders not to have high expect
...(more)
Alyssa Azar ready to scale new heightsSun, 22 Jul 2018 22:53:00 +0200.

SHE'S just conquered Mt Everest for the second time in her young life but despite the extraordinary achievement, there's no chance you'll catch 21-year-old Alyssa Azar resting on her laurels. The remarkable woman became the youngest Austral
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Exxon’s Papua New Guinea Gas Project Is Dead In The Water Papua New Gu ... Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:30:00 +0200.

Until recently, tiny Papua New Guinea (PNG) was the envy of the world’s LNG producers. Not only did its PNG LNG export project come online without much delay but it also avoided the quandary, affecting nearby Australia whose LNG development
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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),