Overall Green Earthquake in Papua New Guinea on 02 Apr 2023 02:49 UTC

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M 4.5 in Papua New Guinea on 02 Apr 2023 02:49 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 1367665
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	66.733 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.6272 , 154.3973
Event Date:	02 Apr 2023 02:49 UTC 02 Apr 2023 13:49 Local
Exposed Population:	110 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at:	02 Apr 2023 03:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Papua New Guinea)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000k1fe	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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