Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 26 Mar 2016 14:12 UTC

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 26 Mar 2016 14:12 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 1083193
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	76.31 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.0772 , 148.8456
Event Date:	26 Mar 2016 14:12 UTC 27 Mar 2016 00:12 Local
Exposed Population:	About 60546 people within 100km
Inserted at:	26 Mar 2016 21:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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