M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Feb 2018 04:41 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 1135851
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4195 , 151.8309
Event Date: 26 Feb 2018 04:41 UTC
26 Feb 2018 14:41 Local
Exposed Population: About 62000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2018 04:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d7y3 Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 363 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

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Chinese FM offers condolences to PNG over earthquakeFri, 02 Mar 2018 02:45:00 +0100.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday offered condolences and extended sympathy over a powerful earthquake in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In the message to his PNG counterpart Rimbink Pato, Wang pledged that the Chinese government is wil
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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),