M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Feb 2018 08:26 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 1135859
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 23.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4274 , 143.2706
Event Date: 26 Feb 2018 08:26 UTC
26 Feb 2018 18:26 Local
Exposed Population: 870000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2018 08:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d80x 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: 806 | About casualties: 138 | Last hour: 0

Gempa Landa Maluku Tenggara Barat, Diprediksi Sejak Akhir 2017Fri, 02 Mar 2018 07:46:00 +0100.

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Mattarella: 'La ricerca nell'ambito delle malattie rare va sostenuta' ... Fri, 02 Mar 2018 07:42:00 +0100.

(Di venerdì 2 marzo 2018) In occasione del decimo anniversario della Giornata mondiale delle malattie rare , ha fatto il giro del Paese la dichiarazione del presidente della Repubblica Video , Sergio Mattarella : "La ricerca. : RT @msdsalu
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Hanyu set to receive People’s Honor Award; youngest everFri, 02 Mar 2018 07:40:00 +0100.

Yuzuru Hanyu, who became the first male figure skater to win back-to-back gold medals in 66 years at the Pyeongchang Olympics, is expected to become the youngest-ever recipient of the People’s Honor Award. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide
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RELOCATED SAMOANS STRUGGLE FOR WATERFri, 02 Mar 2018 07:13:00 +0100.

A year after tsunami, water service just a promise. By Charlina Tone APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, Sept. 28, 2010) - After a few days without rain Olo Tolovae of Lepa sends his four daughters with buckets to the village pool to collect water
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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),