Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 22 Dec 2021 02:20 UTC

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M 4.7 in Papua New Guinea on 22 Dec 2021 02:20 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 1302844
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	43.49 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.5908 , 153.9391
Event Date:	22 Dec 2021 02:20 UTC 22 Dec 2021 12:20 Local
Exposed Population:	70 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	22 Dec 2021 02:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gedb	Scaled population (vector)	3.89
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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