M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Sep 2018 02:03 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 1156941
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 35.66 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3499 , 147.6778
Event Date: 18 Sep 2018 02:03 UTC
18 Sep 2018 12:03 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2018 02:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hg6v Scaled population (vector) 5.53  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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

World: Eighth Pacific Tsunami Drill set for September to November 2018Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:56:00 +0200.

Over 40 countries around the Pacific Rim will participate in a mock tsunami scenario from September to November 2018. The purpose of this exercise is to test country tsunami decision-making procedures and communication systems and processes
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Philippines: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 10 – 16 September 2018Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:54:00 +0200.

Regional Summary of Week 37 and Outlook for Week 38. 1) In Week 37, monsoon season still prevails with large concerns raised over Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong) which passed through Philippines and affecting China and Viet Nam. 2) Dry weat
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WA is smack-bang in the middle of a tectonic plate, so why does it get ... Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:15:00 +0200.

The largest was the 6.5-magnitude quake at Meckering in 1968 that injured 20 and left hundreds of families homeless. But Western Australia is in the middle of a tectonic plate, so how do earthquakes even happen here in the first place? No f
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Why does WA get the country's largest tremors?Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0200.

on Sunday afternoon. West Australian town of Walpole, about 430 kilometres south-east of Perth, with tremors felt as far away as Perth and Albany No serious damage was reported, but the quake was considered "uncommonly large". Some of the l
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),