Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 09 Jun 2013 13:29 UTC

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M 4.9 in Papua New Guinea on 09 Jun 2013 13:29 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 1000139
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	53.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.5721 , 153.6644
Event Date:	09 Jun 2013 13:29 UTC 09 Jun 2013 23:29 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Jun 2013 16:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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