Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Of Fiji Islands on 25 May 2017 06:02 UTC

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M 5.3 in South Of Fiji Islands on 25 May 2017 06:02 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 1113762
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	110.23 Km
Lat/Lon:	-22.3792 , -176.3241
Event Date:	25 May 2017 06:02 UTC 25 May 2017 19:02 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 May 2017 06:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us10008v90	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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