M 6.8 in Papua New Guinea on 01 May 2015 08:06 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 1053476
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 57.04 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.196 , 151.8013
Event Date: 01 May 2015 08:06 UTC
01 May 2015 18:06 Local
Exposed Population: 100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 May 2015 08:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.1 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.08m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),