Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 04 May 2016 07:51 UTC

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M 4.5 in China on 04 May 2016 07:51 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 1085689
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	15.15 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.2902 , 103.3727
Event Date:	04 May 2016 07:51 UTC 04 May 2016 15:51 Local
Exposed Population:	4636852 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 May 2016 20:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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