Overall Green Earthquake in Fiji Islands Region on 29 Jul 2017 23:51 UTC

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M 4.7 in Fiji Islands Region on 29 Jul 2017 23:51 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 1118187
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	183.75 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.7993 , -176.3198
Event Date:	29 Jul 2017 23:51 UTC 29 Jul 2017 11:51 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 Jul 2017 00:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us2000a2lf	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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