Overall Green Earthquake in South Of Kermadec Islands on 11 Mar 2020 01:01 UTC

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M 5.3 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 11 Mar 2020 01:01 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 1209675
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-32.4116 , -178.058
Event Date:	11 Mar 2020 01:01 UTC 10 Mar 2020 13:01 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Mar 2020 01:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us60008dgf	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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