M 6.9 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Mar 2024 20:22 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 1420849
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Glide number: EQ-2024-000034-PNG
Depth: 40.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.1388 , 143.1594
Event Date: 23 Mar 2024 20:22 UTC
24 Mar 2024 06:22 Local
Exposed Population: 180 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 23 Mar 2024 21:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 2.1 0 2.1
us6000mksx Scaled population (vector) 4.21 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.3      
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Papua New Guinea - Earthquake (ECHO 25 Mar 2024)Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:10

  • An earthquake of 6.9 M at a depth of 40 km occurred in Papua New Guinea on 23 March at 20.22 UTC (24 March at 6.22 local time). The epicentre was located 38 km north of Ambunti Town, in East Sepik Province, western Papua New Guinea.
  • USGS PAGER estimated that up to 200,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking and up to 200,000 people to very strong shaking.
  • According to media reports, as of 25 March, five people died and at least 1,000 houses have been destroyed. Dozens of villages hit by the earthquake in the northern Papua New Guinea area have already been affected by the flooding of the Sepik River.
  • National authorities are conducting monitoring, assessment, and data collection. 
M6.9 in Papua New Guinea - EC/ECHO daily mapMon, 25 Mar 2024 17:16

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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),