Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 23 Oct 2020 23:08 UTC

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M 4.6 in Papua New Guinea on 23 Oct 2020 23:08 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 1240638
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	48.38 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.8002 , 145.5285
Event Date:	23 Oct 2020 23:08 UTC 24 Oct 2020 09:08 Local
Exposed Population:	310000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Oct 2020 23:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000ccd8	Scaled population (vector)	5.54
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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