Overall Green Earthquake in Vanuatu on 11 Jan 2014 12:51 UTC

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M 5 in Vanuatu on 11 Jan 2014 12:51 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 1022995
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-16.8934 , 167.4382
Event Date:	11 Jan 2014 12:51 UTC 11 Jan 2014 23:51 Local
Exposed Population:	About 32853 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Jan 2014 13:16 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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