M 6.3 in Papua New Guinea on 14 Mar 2023 00:49 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 221.585 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4324 , 146.8375
Event Date: 14 Mar 2023 00:49 UTC
14 Mar 2023 10:49 Local
Exposed Population: 200 thousand in MMI IV
Source: NEIC us7000jjp7
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2023 01:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000jjp7 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 rapid impact 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1495225 0 14 Mar 2023 00:49 6.3M, 221.585km 4.06 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 00:16 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Papua New Guinea ,of Madang. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Madang Papua New Guinea no people
Morobe Papua New Guinea no people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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