M 5.5 in Papua New Guinea on 27 Nov 2018 09:22 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 1163461
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.0746 , 154.7539
Event Date: 27 Nov 2018 09:22 UTC
27 Nov 2018 19:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 21000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2018 09:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hwz0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

GROUP DISPLACED BY WEST SEPIK TSUNAMI FACE LAND PROBLEMSFri, 30 Nov 2018 12:25:00 +0100.

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (December 30, 1998 - Post-Courier)---About 22 families from Warapu, one of the villages affected by the tsunami in West Sepik Province, are pleading to the government to provide land for them to settle on. The leade
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Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea: Earthquake - Emergency Plan of Act ... Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:53:00 +0100.

Summary: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) was granted on 28 February 2018 for CHF 209,398 to the PNGRCS. The DREF reached 3,000 people in three Highlands provinces,
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OCHA Annual Report 2015Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:08:00 +0100.

1OCHA UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS ANNUAL REPORT 2015 CHA UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS ANNUAL REPORT 2015 unocha.org reliefweb.int Twitter @unocha and @UnReliefChie
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Papua New Guinea travel adviceThu, 22 Nov 2018 17:41:00 +0100.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all but essential travel to Hela and Southern Highlands provinces following significantly increased levels of tribal fighting and the declaration of states of emergency by the Papua N
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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),