Overall Green Earthquake alert in Kazakhstan on 18 Dec 2016 05:54 UTC

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M 4.5 in Kazakhstan on 18 Dec 2016 05:54 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 1101186
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	43.2865 , 75.0557
Event Date:	18 Dec 2016 05:54 UTC 18 Dec 2016 11:54 Local
Exposed Population:	1634142 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Dec 2016 08:22 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000825u	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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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