Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 29 Dec 2016 17:33 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 29 Dec 2016 17:33 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 1102089
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.3565 , 153.0181
Event Date:	29 Dec 2016 17:33 UTC 30 Dec 2016 03:33 Local
Exposed Population:	About 4054 people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Dec 2016 21:40 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007njw	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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