M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Sep 2019 23:59 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 1188245
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 145.06 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.982 , 151.602
Event Date: 19 Sep 2019 23:59 UTC
20 Sep 2019 09:59 Local
Exposed Population:
170000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2019 03:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60005l5f Scaled population (vector) 4.97  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

New Zealand scientist helps fly drones in a volcanic crater, 4000km aw ... Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:24:00 +0200.

In an upstairs room at a New Plymouth lifestyle block - with sweeping views across to Mt Taranaki - a scientist is helping colleagues fly drones into volcanic craters half a world away in Papua New Guinea. Their mission - to study gases in
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Magnitude 5.3 Earthquake Jolts West Papua's TambrauwSun, 15 Sep 2019 04:27:00 +0200.

TEMPO.CO Jakarta - An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 shook Tambrauw Regency, West Papua Province, on Saturday at 12:42 local time. The quake was not potential to a tsunami. Geophysics station of BMKG Sorong stated that the epicenter was 57 km
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Sacude terremoto de magnitud 5,0 en la escala de Richter a IndonesiaFri, 06 Sep 2019 12:31:00 +0200.

Yakarta (VNA)- Un sismo de magnitud 5,0 en la escala de Richter sacudió hoy la provincia de Papúa, al Este de Indonesia, según la Agencia de meteorología, climatología y geofísica de este país (BMKG). El epicentro del terremoto se ubicó 41
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Rp 70 billion needed to repair govt buildings in Papua: MinisterMon, 02 Sep 2019 17:09:00 +0200.

Following unrest in Papua, the government is faced with an expensive repair bill in the easternmost province. Around Rp 70 billion (US$4.9 million) will be allocated to fix at least seven government office buildings. Public Works and Public
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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),