Overall Green Earthquake alert in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 12 Dec 2013 04:57 UTC

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M 4.7 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 12 Dec 2013 04:57 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 1019954
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	9.97 Km
Lat/Lon:	-30.01 , -177.36
Event Date:	12 Dec 2013 04:57 UTC 11 Dec 2013 16:57 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 Dec 2013 05:17 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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