Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 17 Apr 2017 19:14 UTC

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M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 17 Apr 2017 19:14 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 1110524
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	-13.2225 , 166.4742
Event Date:	17 Apr 2017 19:14 UTC 18 Apr 2017 06:14 Local
Exposed Population:	About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Apr 2017 23:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008ies	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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