- Title
- Country Profile - Papua New Guinea
- Abstract
- Papua New Guinea is expected to incur, on average, 85 million USD per year in losses due to earthquakes and tropical cyclones. In the next 50 years, Papua New Guinea has a 50% chance of experiencing a loss exceeding 700 million USD and casualties larger than 4,900 people, and a 10% chance of experiencing a loss exceeding 1.4 billion USD and casualties larger than 11,500 people.
- Publication Date
- Sept. 1, 2011, 2:01 p.m.
- Category
- Geoscientific Information
- information pertaining to earth sciences. Examples: geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth s rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, erosion
- Regions
- Papua New Guinea
- Responsible
- andy
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
- wind_storm
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