Overall Green Earthquake alert Off-shore on 16 Jul 2016 14:07 UTC

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M 4.6 Off-shore on 16 Jul 2016 14:07 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 1090085
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	27.63 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.058 , 140.9528
Event Date:	16 Jul 2016 14:07 UTC 16 Jul 2016 23:07 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Jul 2016 14:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20006f6w	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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