Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea from 19 Apr 2014 22:33 UTC to 22:33

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea from 19 Apr 2014 22:33 UTC to 22:33

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1030164
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	73.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.5174 , 154.6356
Event Date:	19 Apr 2014 22:33 UTC 20 Apr 2014 08:33 Local
Exposed Population:	About 31085 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Apr 2014 22:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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