Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 19 Dec 2016 10:57 UTC

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M 4.7 in China on 19 Dec 2016 10:57 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 1101301
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	61.82 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.3878 , 73.9595
Event Date:	19 Dec 2016 10:57 UTC 19 Dec 2016 18:57 Local
Exposed Population:	About 50427 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Dec 2016 11:25 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us200082jb	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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