M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jul 2020 08:48 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 1228198
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7469 , 143.1455
Event Date: 30 Jul 2020 08:48 UTC
30 Jul 2020 18:48 Local
Exposed Population:
430000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jul 2020 09:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b6m9 Scaled population (vector) 5.32  
  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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Quake kills one in PNGTue, 21 Jul 2020 04:52:00 +0200.

A woman died in a landslide and another was injured when her home collapsed as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit parts of the country including Port Moresby on Friday, Papua New Guinea officials say. Northern police commander Supt Michael Well
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Woman buried by landslide after quake in PNG's Sohe districtMon, 20 Jul 2020 07:30:00 +0200.

At least one person was killed by a landslide as a result of Friday's big earthquake in Papua New Guinea. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 17 July 2020 caused wine bottles to fall off shelves in Foodworld Waterfront in Por
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Woman buried by landslide after quake in PNG's Sohe districtMon, 20 Jul 2020 07:27:00 +0200.

At least one person was killed by a landslide as a result of Friday's big earthquake in Papua New Guinea. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 17 July 2020 caused wine bottles to fall off shelves in Foodworld Waterfront in Por
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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),