Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 16 May 2012 00:59 UTC

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M 6 in Papua New Guinea on 16 May 2012 00:59 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 116971
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.0M
Depth:	154 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.5556 , 149.71
Event Date:	16 May 2012 00:59 UTC 16 May 2012 10:59 Local
Exposed Population:	157986 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 May 2012 01:20 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb0009qsw	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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