Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Caledonia on 20 Mar 2016 18:15 UTC

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M 4.7 in New Caledonia on 20 Mar 2016 18:15 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 1082864
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-21.5823 , 169.3933
Event Date:	20 Mar 2016 18:15 UTC 21 Mar 2016 05:15 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Mar 2016 19:57 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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