M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Dec 2016 17:35 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 1101777
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -5.382 , 154.2679
Event Date: 25 Dec 2016 17:35 UTC
26 Dec 2016 03:35 Local
Exposed Population:
About 99798 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2016 18:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007mpw Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),