Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 29 Apr 2025 07:11 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Apr 2025 07:11 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 1479423
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	100.1 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.2272 , 146.7604
Event Date:	29 Apr 2025 07:11 UTC 29 Apr 2025 17:11 Local
Exposed Population:	310 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	29 Apr 2025 07:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000pvqv	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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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