M 6.5 in Papua New Guinea from 25 Feb 2023 21:24 UTC to 21:24

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1361934
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 65.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.571 , 149.929
Event Date: 25 Feb 2023 21:24 UTC
26 Feb 2023 07:24 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2023 21:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
PTWC 0 0 0
pt23056001 Scaled population (vector) 0.3 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.3      
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),