M 6.1 in Papua New Guinea on 28 Feb 2018 02:45 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 1136064
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 16 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1817 , 142.4918
Event Date: 28 Feb 2018 02:45 UTC
28 Feb 2018 12:45 Local
Exposed Population: 400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2018 21:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d90d Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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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),