Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Of Fiji Islands on 15 Dec 2021 07:14 UTC

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M 5.1 in South Of Fiji Islands on 15 Dec 2021 07:14 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 1301751
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	478.73 Km
Lat/Lon:	-25.9321 , 179.9573
Event Date:	15 Dec 2021 07:14 UTC 15 Dec 2021 19:14 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	15 Dec 2021 07:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gcch	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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