M 6.3 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Mar 2023 00:49 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 1364679
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 221.585 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4324 , 146.8375
Event Date: 14 Mar 2023 00:49 UTC
14 Mar 2023 10:49 Local
Exposed Population: 200 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2023 01:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000jjp7 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Latest media headlines

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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),