Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 13 Apr 2013 22:49 UTC

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M 6 in Vanuatu on 13 Apr 2013 22:49 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 123998
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.0M
Depth:	270.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	-19.1346 , 169.637
Event Date:	13 Apr 2013 22:49 UTC 14 Apr 2013 09:49 Local
Exposed Population:	About 35604 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Apr 2013 05:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000g6it	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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