Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 06 Jun 2017 07:22 UTC

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M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 06 Jun 2017 07:22 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 1114454
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	71.26 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.2705 , 147.7031
Event Date:	06 Jun 2017 07:22 UTC 06 Jun 2017 17:22 Local
Exposed Population:	280000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jun 2017 07:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-1		-1
us20009kvy	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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),

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