M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Jun 2024 05:16 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
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: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5829 , 144.6673
Event Date: 29 Jun 2024 05:16 UTC
29 Jun 2024 15:16 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI&>=V
Source: NEIC us6000n93j
Inserted at: 29 Jun 2024 05:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n93j Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1579348 0 29 Jun 2024 05:16 4.8M, 10km 5.57 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:31 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.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Papua New Guinea ,of Chimbu (population 190,000) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
<1000 people
3200 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Chimbu Papua New Guinea 7400 people
Chimbu Papua New Guinea 8400 people
Southern Highlands Papua New Guinea no people
Gulf Papua New Guinea no people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Sora Southern Highlands Papua New Guinea Village - 7 km
Kalabai Southern Highlands Papua New Guinea Village - 7 km
Tivi Chimbu Papua New Guinea Village - 10 km
Oludabei Chimbu Papua New Guinea Village - 19 km
Karimui Chimbu Papua New Guinea Village - 20 km

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Critical infrastructure

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

Airports

Intensity Name IATA Code Elevation (m) Usage Runway type IFR Runway Length (ft) Distance
Negarbo GBF unknown 0 0 km

More information

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