Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 07 Jan 2023 20:23 UTC

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M 4.8 in Papua New Guinea on 07 Jan 2023 20:23 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 1353473
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	81.641 Km
Lat/Lon:	-4.3974 , 144.0017
Event Date:	07 Jan 2023 20:23 UTC 08 Jan 2023 06:23 Local
Exposed Population:	110 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	07 Jan 2023 20:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000j2ut	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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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