Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 25 Nov 2014 15:19 UTC

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M 5.6 in China on 25 Nov 2014 15:19 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 1043791
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	9 Km
Lat/Lon:	30.18 , 101.74
Event Date:	25 Nov 2014 15:19 UTC 25 Nov 2014 23:19 Local
Exposed Population:	540000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Nov 2014 19:30 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
	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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Rescue accelerates as major aftershock hits Sichuan quake zone 11/26/2014 9:40:00 AM.

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