Overall Green Earthquake alert in Off Coast Of South Africa on 07 Apr 2016 17:06 UTC

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M 4.8 in Off Coast Of South Africa on 07 Apr 2016 17:06 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 1083911
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-39.2889 , 34.7152
Event Date:	07 Apr 2016 17:06 UTC 07 Apr 2016 19:06 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	07 Apr 2016 17:30 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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