M 5.8 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Feb 2018 22:50 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 1134133
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 267.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.8048 , 151.9177
Event Date: 10 Feb 2018 22:50 UTC
11 Feb 2018 08:50 Local
Exposed Population: 240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Feb 2018 23:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d0ex Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 257 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Expertos advierten que República Dominicana es vulnerable ante sismo d ... Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:42:00 +0100.

Santo Domingo (EFE).- El presidente de la Sociedad Dominicana de Sismología e Ingeniería Sísmica (Sodosísmica), Leonardo Reyes Madera, advirtió de la vulnerabilidad del país ante un eventual terremoto, debido a “la fragilidad” que presentan
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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),