Overall Green Earthquake alert in Fiji on 12 Jan 2014 11:59 UTC

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M 4.8 in Fiji on 12 Jan 2014 11:59 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 1023133
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	546.86 Km
Lat/Lon:	-18.6504 , -177.769
Event Date:	12 Jan 2014 11:59 UTC 11 Jan 2014 23:59 Local
Exposed Population:	About 1459 people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 Jan 2014 12:23 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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