Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 04 Jun 2020 23:40 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 1221053
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.1284 , 142.2865
Event Date:	04 Jun 2020 23:40 UTC 05 Jun 2020 09:40 Local
Exposed Population:	310000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Jun 2020 23:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000a68e	Scaled population (vector)	5.09
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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Strong earthquake shakes Papua New Guinea, no tsunami warningMon, 08 Jun 2020 08:41:00 +0200.

SYDNEY, June 8, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea early Monday, the US Geological Survey that tracks worldwide quakes reported. The quake struck at 20:06 GMT Sunday with an epicenter on land 131 kilo

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Earthquakes strike West Nusa Tenggara, AcehThu, 04 Jun 2020 13:55:00 +0200.

A series of earthquakes have struck several areas in the country in the past week with the latest reported on Thursday morning, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported. The quakes were recorded in West Nusa Tengga

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