M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 30 May 2016 16:27 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 1087262
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.5303 , 149.7776
Event Date: 30 May 2016 16:27 UTC
31 May 2016 02:27 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 May 2016 17:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),