Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 15 May 2016 06:24 UTC

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M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 15 May 2016 06:24 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 1086329
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	39.32 Km
Lat/Lon:	-14.4339 , 166.906
Event Date:	15 May 2016 06:24 UTC 15 May 2016 17:24 Local
Exposed Population:	About 21507 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 May 2016 06:51 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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