M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Jan 2020 19:11 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 1201025
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 116.75 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.1549 , 151.2578
Event Date: 07 Jan 2020 19:11 UTC
08 Jan 2020 05:11 Local
Exposed Population: About 97000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2020 22:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006vvr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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),