Overall Green Earthquake alert in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 14 Mar 2017 18:16 UTC

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M 5.3 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 14 Mar 2017 18:16 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 1107799
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	31.48 Km
Lat/Lon:	-30.3057 , -177.4697
Event Date:	14 Mar 2017 18:16 UTC 14 Mar 2017 06:16 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Mar 2017 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us100088xz	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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