Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 02 Apr 2014 15:00 UTC

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Apr 2014 15:00 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 1028813
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	50.44 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.3428 , 152.5744
Event Date:	02 Apr 2014 15:00 UTC 03 Apr 2014 01:00 Local
Exposed Population:	About 19706 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Apr 2014 17:03 UTC

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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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