Overall Green Earthquake alert in Philippines on 15 Dec 2013 05:42 UTC

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M 4.5 in Philippines on 15 Dec 2013 05:42 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 1020250
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	103.75 Km
Lat/Lon:	5.68 , 126.8
Event Date:	15 Dec 2013 05:42 UTC 15 Dec 2013 13:42 Local
Exposed Population:	About 3779 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Dec 2013 09:33 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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