Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 05 Feb 2016 17:48 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 05 Feb 2016 17:48 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 1080047
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	96.23 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.4032 , 153.5923
Event Date:	05 Feb 2016 17:48 UTC 06 Feb 2016 03:48 Local
Exposed Population:	About 21012 people within 100km
Inserted at:	05 Feb 2016 18:12 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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