Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 07 Apr 2014 14:30 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Apr 2014 14:30 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 1029172
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	82.61 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.6968 , 154.7947
Event Date:	07 Apr 2014 14:30 UTC 08 Apr 2014 00:30 Local
Exposed Population:	About 59231 people within 100km
Inserted at:	07 Apr 2014 21:33 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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