Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Of Kermadec Islands on 13 May 2017 02:15 UTC

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M 4.6 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 13 May 2017 02:15 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 1112857
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	46.52 Km
Lat/Lon:	-33.7369 , -178.694
Event Date:	13 May 2017 02:15 UTC 12 May 2017 14:15 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	13 May 2017 02:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008s2p	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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