M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Dec 2016 00:43 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 1101169
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 17.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0651 , 153.9551
Event Date: 18 Dec 2016 00:43 UTC
18 Dec 2016 10:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5262 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2016 01:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000823g Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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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),