Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 18 Dec 2016 14:41 UTC

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M 5 in Papua New Guinea on 18 Dec 2016 14:41 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 1101235
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.7455 , 153.7509
Event Date:	18 Dec 2016 14:41 UTC 19 Dec 2016 00:41 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Dec 2016 15:52 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us200082ch	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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