Overall Green Earthquake in Australia on 01 Apr 2014 10:02 UTC

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M 4.7 in Australia on 01 Apr 2014 10:02 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 1028705
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	471.71 Km
Lat/Lon:	-25.4202 , 179.9428
Event Date:	01 Apr 2014 10:02 UTC 01 Apr 2014 22:02 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 Apr 2014 10:26 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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