M 6.2 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Feb 2018 15:17 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 1135893
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 13.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.495 , 143.255
Event Date: 26 Feb 2018 15:17 UTC
27 Feb 2018 01:17 Local
Exposed Population: 800000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2018 16:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d867 Scaled population (vector) 1.15  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 762 | About casualties: 138 | Last hour: 0

Infographıc - 10 Deadliest Earthquakes İn HistoryFri, 02 Mar 2018 15:16:00 +0100.

The 10 deadliest earthquakes in human history took a collective death toll of over 2.5 million people. Nine of these earthquakes took place in Asia. The most casualties in an Asian quake were seen in China, with some 1.3 million people losi
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Exxon declares force majeure on exports from Papua LNG project-sourceFri, 02 Mar 2018 15:08:00 +0100.

02/03/2018. Freight News ExxonMobil Corp has declared force majeure on exports from its Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which has been shut since a powerful earthquake on Monday, an industry source familiar with the ma
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Papúa Nueva Guinea declara estado de emergencia por devastador sismo E ... Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100.

El primer ministro de Papúa Nueva Guinea, Peter O'Neill, declaró el estado de emergencia para las regiones afectadas por el devastador terremoto de 7.5 grados de esta semana, que se estima que ha matado a decenas de personas. Al menos 31 pe
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Papúa Nueva Guinea declara estado de emergencia por devastador sismoFri, 02 Mar 2018 13:32:00 +0100.

El primer ministro de Papúa Nueva Guinea, Peter O'Neill, declaró el estado de emergencia para las regiones afectadas por el devastador terremoto de 7.5 grados de esta semana, que se estima que ha matado a decenas de personas. Al menos 31 pe
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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),