Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 04 Jan 2014 17:57 UTC

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M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 04 Jan 2014 17:57 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 1022249
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	215.42 Km
Lat/Lon:	-13.1166 , 167.0593
Event Date:	04 Jan 2014 17:57 UTC 05 Jan 2014 04:57 Local
Exposed Population:	About 4989 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Jan 2014 18:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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