Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Zealand on 16 Aug 2013 03:09 UTC

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M 5.9 in New Zealand on 16 Aug 2013 03:09 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 1002463
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-41.8357 , 173.8821
Event Date:	16 Aug 2013 03:09 UTC 16 Aug 2013 15:09 Local
Exposed Population:	251976 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Aug 2013 05:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
usb000j4kk	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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