M 6.4 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Jul 2016 19:38 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 1090627
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 7.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.9523 , 147.9672
Event Date: 25 Jul 2016 19:38 UTC
26 Jul 2016 05:38 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jul 2016 20:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006hkb 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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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),