Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 18 Dec 2016 06:39 UTC

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M 5.8 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Dec 2016 06:39 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 1101188
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.3318 , 154.3365
Event Date:	18 Dec 2016 06:39 UTC 18 Dec 2016 16:39 Local
Exposed Population:	About 11000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Dec 2016 07:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000826m	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 (47), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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