M 6.5 in Papua New Guinea on 28 Jul 2012 20:03 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 118373
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 41.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6547 , 153.159
Event Date: 28 Jul 2012 20:03 UTC
29 Jul 2012 06:03 Local
Exposed Population:
About 65000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2012 06:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000bid9 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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Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),