M 6.8 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Dec 2014 01:22 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 1044579
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5 , 154.4
Event Date: 07 Dec 2014 01:22 UTC
07 Dec 2014 11:22 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8249 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2014 01:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.3 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.27m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 617 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

No major damage in Philippine typhoonMon, 08 Dec 2014 00:17:00 +0100.

LEGAZPI, Philippines Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least three people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm br
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World › Philippine typhoon survivors find homes in ruins againSun, 07 Dec 2014 23:42:00 +0100.

TACLOBAN, Philippines. A year after losing all their belongings to one of the world’s strongest storms, thousands of weary people in the Philippines emerged from evacuation shelters on Sunday to find their homes again in ruins. Typhoon Hagu
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Survivors find homes in ruins againSun, 07 Dec 2014 23:41:00 +0100.

TACLOBAN: A year after losing all their belongings to one of the world’s strongest storms, thousands of weary people in the Philippines emerged from evacuation shelters yesterday to find their homes again in ruins. Typhoon Hagupit hit the c
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Valanga granataSun, 07 Dec 2014 22:41:00 +0100.

Adria (Ro) Alterna momenti fantastici a clamorose distrazioni l'Adriese nella partita largamente vinta (si parla di record assoluto di gol fatti in una sola partita al Bettinazzi) contro la Sambonifacese, tanto ridimensionata da problemi so
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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 (81), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),