Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 19 Dec 2016 02:50 UTC

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M 5.1 in Papua New Guinea on 19 Dec 2016 02:50 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 1101269
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	40.2 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.6331 , 153.5318
Event Date:	19 Dec 2016 02:50 UTC 19 Dec 2016 12:50 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Dec 2016 03:22 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us200082gw	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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