Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 03 Mar 2016 22:18 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Mar 2016 22:18 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 1081812
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.1529 , 148.7625
Event Date:	03 Mar 2016 22:18 UTC 04 Mar 2016 08:18 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Mar 2016 22:42 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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