Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 24 Mar 2014 11:19 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Mar 2014 11:19 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 1028182
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	46.12 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.1839 , 142.0845
Event Date:	24 Mar 2014 11:19 UTC 24 Mar 2014 21:19 Local
Exposed Population:	132316 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Mar 2014 12:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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