Overall Red Earthquake in Eastern New Guinea Reg., P.N.G. on 06 May 2019 21:19 UTC

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M 7.2 in Eastern New Guinea Reg., P.N.G. on 06 May 2019 21:19 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a high humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1178759
Earthquake Magnitude:	7.2M
Glide number:	EQ-2019-000044-PNG
Depth:	126.92 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.9767 , 146.44
Event Date:	06 May 2019 21:19 UTC 07 May 2019 07:19 Local
Exposed Population:	570000 people in MMI 580000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	07 May 2019 21:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	2.4		2.4
us70003hqb	Scaled population (raster)	4.68
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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Papua New Guinea - Earthquake (ECHO 07 May 2019)Tue, 07 May 2019 13:03

An earthquake of 7.2 M at a depth of 127 km occurred in eastern Papua New Guinea on 6 May at 21:19 UTC. The epicenter was located approximately 33 km northwest of Bulolo town (Bulolo District, Morobe Province).
USGS PAGER estimates that up to 761 000 people were exposed to a strong shaking and up to 913 000 people to a moderate shaking.
According to media, as of 7 May at 8.00 UTC, no casualties and significant damage were reported, while power outages have been occurred in Bulolo and Lae towns (Morobe Province).
Tsunami Information statements have been issued by the Regional Tsunami Watch Provider (BOM, Australia), indicating that no Tsunami risk was present, due to the high depth of the event.

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