M 5.8 in Papua New Guinea on 09 Mar 2018 11:06 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 1137086
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 45.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.3483 , 153.3367
Event Date: 09 Mar 2018 11:06 UTC
09 Mar 2018 21:06 Local
Exposed Population: About 38000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Mar 2018 11:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000d23h Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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),