M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Jul 2020 05:39 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 1224711
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 68.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1901 , 147.4175
Event Date: 01 Jul 2020 05:39 UTC
01 Jul 2020 15:39 Local
Exposed Population:
340000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jul 2020 06:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000aflz Scaled population (vector) 5.53  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

BMKG installs three early warning receiver systems in AlorThu, 02 Jul 2020 11:27:00 +0200.

Sumawan, head of the Alor Geophysics Station, (right) briefs three personnel of the Alor Search and Rescue Office on the installed earthquake and tsunami early warning receiver system (Antara/HO- BMKG Alor) Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA)
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Strong earthquake shakes Papua New Guinea, no tsunami warningMon, 08 Jun 2020 08:41:00 +0200.

SYDNEY, June 8, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea early Monday, the US Geological Survey that tracks worldwide quakes reported. The quake struck at 20:06 GMT Sunday with an epicenter on land 131 kilo
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Earthquakes strike West Nusa Tenggara, AcehThu, 04 Jun 2020 13:55:00 +0200.

A series of earthquakes have struck several areas in the country in the past week with the latest reported on Thursday morning, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported. The quakes were recorded in West Nusa Tengga
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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),