Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 25 Jun 2013 06:40 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 25 Jun 2013 06:40 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 1000283
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	56.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.8976 , 142.0624
Event Date:	25 Jun 2013 06:40 UTC 25 Jun 2013 16:40 Local
Exposed Population:	168207 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Jun 2013 09:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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