M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 01 Oct 2020 10:34 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 1237622
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 109.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0867 , 148.6576
Event Date: 01 Oct 2020 10:34 UTC
01 Oct 2020 20:34 Local
Exposed Population: About 69000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Oct 2020 10:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c3td Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Un terremoto de magnitud 6,0 sacude la región oriental de Papúa Nueva ... Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:04:00 +0200.

BANGKOK.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6,0 sacudió este jueves la región oriental de Papúa Nueva Guinea, sin que se informara de daños materiales o víctimas ni se emitiera una alerta de tsunami. El seísmo se produjo a 20.34 hora local (10.34 am
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6.0 sacude la región oriental de Papúa Nueva ... Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:02:00 +0200.

Bangkok.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6.0 sacudió este jueves la región oriental de Papúa Nueva Guinea , sin que se informara de daños materiales o víctimas ni se emitiera una alerta de tsunami. El seísmo se produjo a 20.34 hora local (10.34 a
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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),