M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 01 May 2024 07:39 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 1426745
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.5001 , 148.8845
Event Date: 01 May 2024 07:39 UTC
01 May 2024 17:39 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 01 May 2024 08:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mvf5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Lae , a town with 76,000 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 94 km (58 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. In the c
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5.1-magnitude quake hits WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea: USGS2024-05-04T06:13+0200.

New York, May 4 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 153 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea, at 22:47:40 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 170.0 km, was initially determined to be
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5.3-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu Islands -- GFZ2024-05-04T06:05+0200.

Hong Kong, May 4 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 hit Vanuatu Islands at 0317 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 174.4 km, was initially determined to be at 14.63
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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),