Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea from 01 May 2015 08:06 UTC to 08:06

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M 6.6 in Papua New Guinea from 01 May 2015 08:06 UTC to 08:06

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1053476
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.34 , 151.87
Event Date:	01 May 2015 08:06 UTC 01 May 2015 18:06 Local
Exposed Population:	About 49568 people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 May 2015 08:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
GEOFON	0		1		0.5
gfz2015ilwk	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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