Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea from 10 Oct 2018 20:48 UTC to 20:48

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M 6.7 in Papua New Guinea from 10 Oct 2018 20:48 UTC to 20:48

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1158776
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.7M
Glide number:	EQ-2018-000164-PNG
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.78 , 151.3
Event Date:	10 Oct 2018 20:48 UTC 11 Oct 2018 06:48 Local
Exposed Population:	About 84000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	10 Oct 2018 20:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
GEOFON	0.9		0.2		0.9
gfz2018twvb	Scaled population (vector)	4.92	Max wave alert	0m
	C1 earthquake	1	Max wave realtime	0.3m
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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Papua New Guinea - Earthquake (ECHO 11 Oct 2018)Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:00

An earthquake of 7.0 M at a depth of 40 km occurred over New Britain province (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea) on 10 October at 20.48 UTC. The epicentre was located 117 km east of Kimbe City (West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea). USGS Pager estimated a shaking up to very strong for 14 000 people and up to strong for 40 000 people.
As of 11 October, no casualties or damage have been reported.

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