Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Zealand on 11 Jan 2014 16:35 UTC

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M 4.6 in New Zealand on 11 Jan 2014 16:35 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 1023031
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	222.21 Km
Lat/Lon:	-36.9064 , 176.6198
Event Date:	11 Jan 2014 16:35 UTC 12 Jan 2014 04:35 Local
Exposed Population:	148385 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Jan 2014 18:11 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-1		-1
	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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