M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Feb 2019 04:29 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 1170857
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.8428 , 151.0141
Event Date: 15 Feb 2019 04:29 UTC
15 Feb 2019 14:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 36000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2019 04:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jias Scaled population (vector) 3.57  
  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

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Un terremoto de magnitud de 6,4 sacude Papúa Nueva GuineaSun, 17 Feb 2019 17:06:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud de 6,4 se ha registrado a 47 kilómetros al noroeste de Namatanai (Papúa Nueva Guinea) a las 14:35 UTC, informa el Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El foco del temblor se ha localizado en un
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Papua New Guinea earthquake: Huge 6.4 tremor hits Pacific islandSun, 17 Feb 2019 16:16:00 +0100.

An earthquake measured at 6.4 has struck Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific. A tsunami warning is currently in effect for the surrounding area. The earthquake struck at a depth of 367.93km, 47km north west of the town of Namatanai
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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),