M 5.6 in Papua New Guinea on 11 Apr 2019 21:31 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 1176218
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 22 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5114 , 148.6588
Event Date: 11 Apr 2019 21:31 UTC
12 Apr 2019 07:31 Local
Exposed Population: About 55000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2019 04:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us700034nf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 55 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

samoa Earthquakes not strong enough to issue tsunami warning By Soli W ... Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:19:00 +0200.

Samoa has experienced five earthquakes in a row over the past seven days with the latest occurring early yesterday morning. No tsunami warning was issued for the earthquakes, according to a bulletin issued by Samoa Meteorological Office. Th
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QRCS completes relief project for PNG earthquake victimsSat, 13 Apr 2019 01:56:00 +0200.

Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has completed a relief intervention to help the victims of earthquakes and floods in Papua New Guinea, with funding from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD). The project was co-ordinated with Papua New Guinea
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4 YEARS AFTER TSUNAMI, INDONESIA’S CORAL REEFS MENDINGTue, 09 Apr 2019 07:35:00 +0200.

U.S. environmental organization monitoring baby corals. HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, Dec. 31, 2008) – A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs i
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Papua New Guinea: QRCS sends relief delegation to Papua New Guinea [EN ... Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:30:00 +0200.

April 8th, 2019 ― Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has completed a relief intervention to help the victims of earthquakes and floods in Papua New Guinea, with funding from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD). The project was coordinate
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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),