Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 24 Feb 2023 05:25 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Feb 2023 05:25 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 1361649
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	144.099 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.5447 , 154.2238
Event Date:	24 Feb 2023 05:25 UTC 24 Feb 2023 15:25 Local
Exposed Population:	100 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	24 Feb 2023 05:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000jr73	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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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