Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 22 Jan 2017 04:30 UTC

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M 7.9 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Jan 2017 04:30 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 1103782
Earthquake Magnitude:	7.9M
Depth:	136 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.2137 , 155.1224
Event Date:	22 Jan 2017 04:30 UTC 22 Jan 2017 15:30 Local
Exposed Population:	About 63000 people in MMI 140000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Jan 2017 05:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
Maximum Wave Height observed:	0.01 m

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0.6		1
us10007uph	Scaled population (vector)	0	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	1	Max wave realtime	0.59m
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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