Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea from 17 Dec 2016 11:27 UTC to 11:27

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M 6 in Papua New Guinea from 17 Dec 2016 11:27 UTC to 11:27

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1101102
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.0M
Depth:	40.43 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.704 , 153.9339
Event Date:	17 Dec 2016 11:27 UTC 17 Dec 2016 21:27 Local
Exposed Population:	About 47000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Dec 2016 11:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us200081w0	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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 459 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Rivas Realiza Con Éxito el Último Simulacro NacionalTue, 20 Dec 2016 23:26:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (47), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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