M 7.6 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Sep 2022 23:46 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1337179
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.6M
Glide number: EQ-2022-000308-PNG
Depth: 90.013 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.2557 , 146.4692
Event Date: 10 Sep 2022 23:46 UTC
11 Sep 2022 09:46 Local
Exposed Population: 220000 people in MMI
1.2 million (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 11 Sep 2022 00:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 2.9 2.9
us6000iitd Scaled population (raster) 5.38  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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M7.6 in Papua New Guinea - EC/ECHO daily mapMon, 12 Sep 2022 18:00

A new EC/ECHO daily map is now available
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),