Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 16 Apr 2013 22:55 UTC

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M 6.6 in Papua New Guinea on 16 Apr 2013 22:55 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 124089
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	13 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.2184 , 142.543
Event Date:	16 Apr 2013 22:55 UTC 17 Apr 2013 08:55 Local
Exposed Population:	201276 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Apr 2013 01:44 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0.7		0.1		0.5
usb000g8my	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0.14m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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