M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Apr 2021 11:38 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 1264224
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.4527 , 145.7212
Event Date: 10 Apr 2021 11:38 UTC
10 Apr 2021 21:38 Local
Exposed Population: About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2021 12:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e0lk Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Exposed population

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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),