M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Dec 2013 12:31 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 1021103
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 79.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3838 , 154.8707
Event Date: 23 Dec 2013 12:31 UTC
23 Dec 2013 22:31 Local
Exposed Population:
103037 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Dec 2013 13:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),