M 6.2 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Aug 2012 22:41 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 118974
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 77.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8488 , 144.583
Event Date: 19 Aug 2012 22:41 UTC
20 Aug 2012 08:41 Local
Exposed Population:
442205 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2012 22:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.2 -0.2
usc000c350 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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Meteo assessment
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),