M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Jan 2017 10:49 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 1102384
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 57.37 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.2569 , 148.0309
Event Date: 03 Jan 2017 10:49 UTC
03 Jan 2017 20:49 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jan 2017 11:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007pfs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),