M 5.4 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Feb 2018 18:28 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 1135939
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0596 , 142.7036
Event Date: 26 Feb 2018 18:28 UTC
27 Feb 2018 04:28 Local
Exposed Population: 620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2018 22:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d8bx Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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),