Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 03 Mar 2016 22:57 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 03 Mar 2016 22:57 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 1081818
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.0869 , 148.7657
Event Date:	03 Mar 2016 22:57 UTC 04 Mar 2016 08:57 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Mar 2016 23:18 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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