M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Oct 2020 02:58 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 1240918
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4003 , 154.2777
Event Date: 26 Oct 2020 02:58 UTC
26 Oct 2020 12:58 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Oct 2020 04:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cd5m Scaled population (vector) 3.05  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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

New observations in Central Italy of groundwater responses to the worl ... Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:19:00 +0200.

Chemical and physical responses of groundwater to seismicity have been documented for thousands of years. Among the waves produced by earthquakes, Rayleigh waves can spread to great distances and produce hydrogeological perturbations in res
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Questions over PNG simcard deactivation numbersTue, 20 Oct 2020 06:22:00 +0200.

There are questions over how many Papua New Guinea mobile phones have been de-activated after a registration deadline passed. In 2018 people in PNG were told to register their simcards by the end of last month or have their phones de-activa
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Questions over PNG simcard deactivation numbersTue, 20 Oct 2020 03:36:00 +0200.

There are questions over how many Papua New Guinea mobile phones have been de-activated after a registration deadline passed. In 2018 people in PNG were told to register their simcards by the end of last month or have their phones de-activ
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October 2020 Global Earthquake Report / VolcanoDiscoverySat, 10 Oct 2020 22:24:00 +0200.

Saturday 10 October 2020 18:00 PM | Posted by: Earthquake Monitor. Earthquakes worldwide above 5 degrees during October 2020. Jump to the Daily Reports for October 2020: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 summary: 5 earthquakes 6.0+, 44
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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),