Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 22 May 2017 00:18 UTC

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M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 22 May 2017 00:18 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 1113546
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	58.54 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.0498 , 153.5851
Event Date:	22 May 2017 00:18 UTC 22 May 2017 10:18 Local
Exposed Population:	About 9000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 May 2017 05:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008u2q	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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