M 6.8 in Papua New Guinea on 08 Mar 2018 17:39 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 1137006
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 15.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.3887 , 153.2016
Event Date: 08 Mar 2018 17:39 UTC
09 Mar 2018 03:39 Local
Exposed Population: About 65000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2018 18:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
us1000d1kv Scaled population (vector) 1.26 Max wave scenario 0.53m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.25m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.3      
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),