Overall Green Earthquake alert in Fiji Islands Region on 19 Feb 2017 11:02 UTC

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M 4.9 in Fiji Islands Region on 19 Feb 2017 11:02 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 1105933
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-15.78 , -179.6686
Event Date:	19 Feb 2017 11:02 UTC 19 Feb 2017 23:02 Local
Exposed Population:	About 14000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Feb 2017 11:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008ksg	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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