M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Oct 2019 19:34 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 1190806
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 15.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.9265 , 141.6489
Event Date: 17 Oct 2019 19:34 UTC
18 Oct 2019 05:34 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2019 19:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70005v4h Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 17 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Philippines: séisme de magnitude 6,4 à Mindanao, un enfant tuéThu, 17 Oct 2019 05:28:00 +0200.

Un fort séisme d'une magnitude de 6,4 a frappé mercredi l'île de Mindanao, dans le sud des Philippines, tuant un enfant et provoquant des effondrements de bâtiments et des coupures de courant, selon les autorités locales. À lire aussi : L'
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Stunning footage shows volcano leaking toxic gases 52 minutes ago Rese ... Tue, 08 Oct 2019 03:39:00 +0200.

Volcanologists have captured stunning footage of "one of the most active volcanoes in the world". Kiwi expert Dr Ian Schipper has just returned from an expedition to Papua New Guinea's remote and unstable Bagana volcano, which is leaking to
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India: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (1 ... Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:15:00 +0200.

INDIA. Rainfall and widespread flooding affected a number of areas in northeast India, predominantly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states. According to the Disaster Management Department, over two million people have been affected by the flood
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Tropical fungal outbreak in Pacific northwest sparked by tsunamisThu, 03 Oct 2019 13:59:00 +0200.

Tsunamis triggered by a major earthquake in Alaska in 1964 could explain how a deadly fungus colonized the coastal forests of British Columbia and Washington, and ultimately infected humans and animals, according to a new paper published th
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),