M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 13 Jun 2024 02:29 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 1432889
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 67.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7684 , 145.9859
Event Date: 13 Jun 2024 02:29 UTC
13 Jun 2024 12:29 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 13 Jun 2024 02:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ms22 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Moderate mag. 4.9 earthquake - 212 km north of Madang, Madang, Papua N ... 2024-06-16T03:49+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Madang , a town with 27,000 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 212 km (132 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking ther
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Papua New Guinea Thanks India As Humanitarian Aid Reaches Port Moresby2024-06-14T12:08+0200.

- IANS) port Moresby, June 14 (IANS) Emphasising that "a friend in need is a friend indeed", Papua New Guinea expressed deep gratitude towards India as the 19-tonne relief assistance dispatched by New Delhi touched down at the Jackson Inter
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USD 1 million Indian aid reaches landslide-hit Papua New Guinea; Minis ... 2024-06-14T11:40+0200.

Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], June 14 (ANI): The USD 1 million worth of humanitarian assistance sent by India for landslide victims in Papua New Guinea reached the disaster-hit country on Friday. The Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assi
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),