M 6.3 in Papua New Guinea on 21 Jun 2016 17:12 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 1088564
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 365.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.462 , 151.8538
Event Date: 21 Jun 2016 17:12 UTC
22 Jun 2016 03:12 Local
Exposed Population:
105683 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jun 2016 20:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200065sc Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 247 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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14:10 MARMARA DENİZİ'NDE DEPREM!Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:19:00 +0200.

İstanbul güne depremle uyandı. İstanbul'da saat 08:40 civarında deprem oldu. Kandilli Rasathanesi depremin Marmara Denizi Yalovaaçıklarında meydana geldiğini büyüklüğünün ise 4.4 olduğunu açıkladı. Hissedilen deprem paniğe neden oldu. 10 DA
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Early warning mattersSat, 25 Jun 2016 11:54:00 +0200.

There are communities that have been living in disaster-prone areas for generations and are reluctant to move, despite the fact that their life is constantly under threat. Worse yet, they are hardly prepared when the calamity strikes, rende
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Lounès Matoub raconté par ses amis : Idir : «Tout était exceptionnel c ... Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:49:00 +0200.

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),