Overall Green Earthquake alert in West Of Macquarie Island on 15 Feb 2017 17:58 UTC

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M 4.8 in West Of Macquarie Island on 15 Feb 2017 17:58 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 1105645
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-59.3725 , 149.2253
Event Date:	15 Feb 2017 17:58 UTC 16 Feb 2017 03:58 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Feb 2017 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008k14	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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