M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Apr 2021 11:35 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 1265404
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.0425 , 146.8171
Event Date: 19 Apr 2021 11:35 UTC
19 Apr 2021 21:35 Local
Exposed Population:
About 600 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2021 11:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e2v5 Scaled population (vector) 1.79  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Moderate magnitude 4.8 earthquake 44 km south of Vanimo, Papua New Gui ... Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:22:00 +0200.

A shallow magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported in the morning near Vanimo, Vanimo-Green River District, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Frid
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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),