Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 17 Feb 2016 05:31 UTC

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 17 Feb 2016 05:31 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 1080782
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	58.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.6203 , 152.5368
Event Date:	17 Feb 2016 05:31 UTC 17 Feb 2016 15:31 Local
Exposed Population:	240967 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Feb 2016 06:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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