Overall Green Earthquake alert in Christmas Island on 17 May 2016 21:08 UTC

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M 5.1 in Christmas Island on 17 May 2016 21:08 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 1086464
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.055 , 107.5495
Event Date:	17 May 2016 21:08 UTC 18 May 2016 04:08 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 May 2016 21:30 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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