Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 13 Nov 2023 07:43 UTC

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M 5.7 in Papua New Guinea on 13 Nov 2023 07:43 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 1400654
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.9262 , 150.9609
Event Date:	13 Nov 2023 07:43 UTC 13 Nov 2023 17:43 Local
Exposed Population:	10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	13 Nov 2023 08:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000lali	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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