Overall Green Earthquake in South Of Kermadec Islands on 17 Oct 2014 00:27 UTC

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M 4.6 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 17 Oct 2014 00:27 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 1041573
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	335.04 Km
Lat/Lon:	-32.35 , 179.69
Event Date:	17 Oct 2014 00:27 UTC 17 Oct 2014 12:27 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Oct 2014 01:06 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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