Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 04 Apr 2016 21:03 UTC

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M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 04 Apr 2016 21:03 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 1083721
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	39.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-14.2208 , 166.8023
Event Date:	04 Apr 2016 21:03 UTC 05 Apr 2016 08:03 Local
Exposed Population:	About 12828 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Apr 2016 21:51 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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