Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 04 May 2014 12:43 UTC

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M 4.8 in China on 04 May 2014 12:43 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 1031077
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	33.86 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.887 , 121.6403
Event Date:	04 May 2014 12:43 UTC 04 May 2014 20:43 Local
Exposed Population:	1840442 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 May 2014 13:09 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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