Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 20 Dec 2016 15:21 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 20 Dec 2016 15:21 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 1101415
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	85.94 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.5085 , 153.806
Event Date:	20 Dec 2016 15:21 UTC 21 Dec 2016 01:21 Local
Exposed Population:	About 19225 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Dec 2016 15:43 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us200082uh	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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