Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Zealand on 27 Dec 2016 11:38 UTC

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M 4.5 in New Zealand on 27 Dec 2016 11:38 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 1101908
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	-42.483 , 173.8155
Event Date:	27 Dec 2016 11:38 UTC 28 Dec 2016 00:38 Local
Exposed Population:	About 13069 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Dec 2016 12:34 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007n0b	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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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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