M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 12 Feb 2019 09:45 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 1170587
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.0433 , 146.2742
Event Date: 12 Feb 2019 09:45 UTC
12 Feb 2019 19:45 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2019 10:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jgkf Scaled population (vector) 2.14  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Oil Search : supports Kutubu Secondary School rebuild after earthquakeThu, 14 Feb 2019 06:48:00 +0100.

Oil Search supports Kutubu Secondary School rebuild after earthquake. PNG Media Release. Monday, 11 February 2019. Kutubu Secondary School in the Southern Highlands P rovince is rebuilding its school so 700 students can return to classes af
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World: Humanitarian Assistance in Review: East Asia and the Pacific | ... Fri, 08 Feb 2019 01:31:00 +0100.

Recurrent drought, earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and volcanoes present significant challenges to vulnerable populations in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region. Some countries also face civil unrest and associated humanitarian impact
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Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea | Emergency Response, Resilience Bu ... Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:36:00 +0100.

Highlights IOM has improved access to potable water in Lagui community, Morobe province through the rehabilitation of a gravity fed water supply system. IOM has enhanced food and livelihood security in rural communities in Jiwaka province t
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Climate change: Extreme weather ‘affected 60m people in 2018’Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:14:00 +0100.

events across the globe affected more than 60 million people last year. Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for the majority of the 10,733 lives lost in disasters in 2018, according to latest analysis of 281 events recorded by the Centre for
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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),