Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 15 Jun 2021 02:44 UTC

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M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Jun 2021 02:44 UTC

Hazard models

EQ parameters

Shakemap

Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-1.4199 , 148.1094
Event Date:	15 Jun 2021 02:44 UTC 15 Jun 2021 12:44 Local
Exposed Population:	About 1000 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us7000ed4j
Inserted at:	17 Jun 2021 01:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000ed4j	Scaled population (vector)	2.28
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1380692		0	15 Jun 2021 02:44	4.7M, 10km	N/A	9 thousand (in 100km)		00:50	NEIC
1380961		0	15 Jun 2021 02:44	4.6M, 10km	N/A	2 thousand (in 100km)		1d 22:21	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Papua New Guinea , Province of Manus (population 33,000) .

Radius	Population
100 km	1900 people
75 km	<1000 people
50 km	no people
20 km	no people
10 km	no people
5 km	no people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Manus	Papua New Guinea	33000 people
New Ireland	Papua New Guinea	90000 people
Madang	Papua New Guinea	250000 people
West New Britain	Papua New Guinea	130000 people
Morobe	Papua New Guinea	390000 people
East Sepik	Papua New Guinea	280000 people
East New Britain	Papua New Guinea	170000 people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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