Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 28 Jul 2013 15:10 UTC

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M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 28 Jul 2013 15:10 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 1000728
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	148 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.0553 , 146.7486
Event Date:	28 Jul 2013 15:10 UTC 29 Jul 2013 01:10 Local
Exposed Population:	About 55431 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Jul 2013 16:35 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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