M 6.5 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Nov 2017 21:26 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 1125781
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 107.37 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.2272 , 143.4798
Event Date: 07 Nov 2017 21:26 UTC
08 Nov 2017 07:26 Local
Exposed Population: 200000 people in MMI
340000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Nov 2017 21:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bk15 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Chile’s top court orders compensation for tsunami victimsSat, 11 Nov 2017 13:28:00 +0100.

SANTIAGO – The Supreme Court of Chile has ordered compensation of more than 1.8 billion pesos (about 2.92 million U.S. dollars) to the families of 20 of the victims of the tsunami that struck this country in 2010. By unanimous decision on F
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تحتوي الحقيبة الزرقاء التى تحمل ملصقاً على جانبها مكتوب عليه عبارة «بريد دبلوماسي» على شحنة مروعة: هي عظام وعينات لأنسجة بشرية تم انتشالها من مقبرة جماعية فى البوسنة. ويتم نقل هذه الشحنة إلى مختبر في لاهاي لتجهيزها، حيث يتم تنظيف العينات وط
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),