M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Sep 2018 07:15 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 1155684
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.835 , 150.1969
Event Date: 03 Sep 2018 07:15 UTC
03 Sep 2018 17:15 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Sep 2018 07:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000h72b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 16 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea: Humanitarian Situation Report No. ... Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:48:00 +0200.

Highlights. • During the first half of 2018, the humanitarian situation in Papua New Guinea (PNG) deteriorated and remains grim due to three States of Emergency in PNG: Earthquake disaster for 4 provinces; Peace and Security for Southern Hi
...(more)
Papua New Guinea travel adviceWed, 29 Aug 2018 17:55:00 +0200.

Natural disasters section (Volcanoes) - addition of information; the volcano on Manam Island, off the north coast of Papua New Guinea, erupted on 25 August 2018 forcing a mass evacuation to the mainland The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Vanuatu: Tsunami Information (Pacific Ocean) - Southeast Of Loyalty Is ... Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:13:00 +0200.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) has issued a Tsunami Threat for the following coasts, stating: TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 0.3 TO 1 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE POSSIBLE FOR SOME COASTS OF FIJI... NEW CALEDONIA... AND VANUATU. TSUNA
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A shake-up call THE AFTERSHOCKS of Tuesday’s historic earthquake shoul ... Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:06:00 +0200.

A shake-up call. THE AFTERSHOCKS of Tuesday’s historic earthquake should be not only the further tremors which normally accompany any major seismic event, but also renewed fervour when it comes to bolstering our readiness for similar types
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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),