Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 02 Aug 2012 09:56 UTC

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M 6.3 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Aug 2012 09:56 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 118491
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.3M
Depth:	70.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.7058 , 153.228
Event Date:	02 Aug 2012 09:56 UTC 02 Aug 2012 19:56 Local
Exposed Population:	About 25300 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Aug 2012 10:18 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
usb000bldc	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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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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