Overall Green Earthquake in Near N Coast Of New Guinea, Png. on 08 May 2022 07:54 UTC

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M 4.8 in Near N Coast Of New Guinea, Png. on 08 May 2022 07:54 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 1321734
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.5651 , 145.9392
Event Date:	08 May 2022 07:54 UTC 08 May 2022 17:54 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	08 May 2022 08:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000h7wh	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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