M 6.6 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Apr 2013 01:32 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 124001
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 35.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4792 , 154.584
Event Date: 14 Apr 2013 01:32 UTC
14 Apr 2013 11:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 39514 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2013 05:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.5
usb000g6lc Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.05m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (82), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),