Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jun 2013 08:32 UTC

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jun 2013 08:32 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 1000276
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.4645 , 148.5827
Event Date:	24 Jun 2013 08:32 UTC 24 Jun 2013 18:32 Local
Exposed Population:	About 61924 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Jun 2013 11:06 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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