Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 02 Mar 2017 10:09 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Mar 2017 10:09 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 1106824
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	47.87 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.3973 , 155.1973
Event Date:	02 Mar 2017 10:09 UTC 02 Mar 2017 21:09 Local
Exposed Population:	130000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Mar 2017 10:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us100086gr	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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