M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Dec 2016 12:01 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 1101104
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 95.06 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3447 , 154.4365
Event Date: 17 Dec 2016 12:01 UTC
17 Dec 2016 22:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20901 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2016 12:22 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us200081wn 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 379 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Emergency blood supply: Just add waterWed, 21 Dec 2016 01:36:00 +0100.

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Emergency blood supply: Just add waterWed, 21 Dec 2016 01:06:00 +0100.

One of the most difficult parts about disaster response is having enough blood to give to injured people and then getting it to areas where infrastructure has been decimated after an accident or a natural disaster like an earthquake or tsun
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OCHA 20161220 Reporte Flash: Sismo en cantón Atacames, provincia de Es ... Wed, 21 Dec 2016 01:05:00 +0100.

El día de ayer 19 de diciembre a las 2:11 a.m. se registró un sismo en el cantón Atacames, provincia de Esmeraldas de 5.7 grados de magnitud en la escala de Richter a una profundidad de 5.2 kilómetros (Instituto Geofísico del Ecuador, IGEPN
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Visita al nuevo búnker de la nuclearWed, 21 Dec 2016 00:41:00 +0100.

El accidente de Fukushima, el más grave de la historia después del de Chernobyl, ha marcado un antes y un después en la planificación de la seguridad de las centrales nucleares . Los emplazamientos han tenido que prepararse para afrontar la
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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),