Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jan 2014 19:54 UTC

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 30 Jan 2014 19:54 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 1025098
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	136.99 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.9254 , 153.6773
Event Date:	30 Jan 2014 19:54 UTC 31 Jan 2014 05:54 Local
Exposed Population:	About 14436 people within 100km
Inserted at:	31 Jan 2014 00:19 UTC

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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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