M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Dec 2017 02:50 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 1127634
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 52.71 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.14 , 147.6011
Event Date: 01 Dec 2017 02:50 UTC
01 Dec 2017 12:50 Local
Exposed Population: 290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Dec 2017 03:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000bjph Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),