Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 15 Jun 2014 22:27 UTC

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M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 15 Jun 2014 22:27 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 1034385
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	37.86 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.3766 , 141.4416
Event Date:	15 Jun 2014 22:27 UTC 16 Jun 2014 08:27 Local
Exposed Population:	About 89040 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Jun 2014 00:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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