Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 20 Sep 2015 03:01 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Sep 2015 03:01 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 1066332
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	37.54 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.9904 , 146.6569
Event Date:	20 Sep 2015 03:01 UTC 20 Sep 2015 13:01 Local
Exposed Population:	524964 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Sep 2015 03:30 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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

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