M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 21 May 2019 04:04 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 1180091
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.7447 , 150.136
Event Date: 21 May 2019 04:04 UTC
21 May 2019 14:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2019 04:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003nu3 Scaled population (vector) 4.76  
  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

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Earthquake of 7.5 Magnitude with Tsunami Potential Shocks Papua New Gu ... Thu, 23 May 2019 05:01:00 +0200.

KOKOPO, NETRALNEWS.COM An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale struck the coast of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday (05/14/2019). The US Geological Survey (USGS) says there is a possibility of a dangerous tsunami wave, according to the
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Tanzania floods kill five, leave around 2,500 homelessWed, 22 May 2019 12:42:00 +0200.

Flooding in Tanzania has killed five people and forced about 2,500 to flee their homes after a week of torrential rain in the country's south, an official said Friday. Schools have closed in Kyela, a district on the border of Lake Malawi, a
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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),