Overall Green Earthquake alert in Kermadec Islands Region on 14 Aug 2016 04:09 UTC

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M 5.4 in Kermadec Islands Region on 14 Aug 2016 04:09 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 1091825
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	45.13 Km
Lat/Lon:	-27.4122 , -176.3743
Event Date:	14 Aug 2016 04:09 UTC 13 Aug 2016 16:09 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Aug 2016 04:33 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10006dpp	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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