M 6.1 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Dec 2016 16:24 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 1100561
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 157.05 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6598 , 154.4882
Event Date: 10 Dec 2016 16:24 UTC
11 Dec 2016 03:24 Local
Exposed Population: 110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2016 16:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.7 -0.7
us20007ztn Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 499 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Solomon Islands: UNICEF Solomon Islands Earthquake Pacific Humanitaria ... Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:21:00 +0100.

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Cómo los terremotos han sacudido la Tierra en los últimos 15 añosWed, 14 Dec 2016 14:53:00 +0100.

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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),