Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 03 Aug 2014 00:22 UTC

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M 6.6 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Aug 2014 00:22 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 1037061
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	13.29 Km
Lat/Lon:	0.85 , 146.12
Event Date:	03 Aug 2014 00:22 UTC 03 Aug 2014 10:22 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Aug 2014 00:39 UTC

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		1		0.5
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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