Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Zealand on 19 Dec 2016 02:38 UTC

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M 4.5 in New Zealand on 19 Dec 2016 02:38 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 1101267
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	75.69 Km
Lat/Lon:	-45.1657 , 167.3397
Event Date:	19 Dec 2016 02:38 UTC 19 Dec 2016 15:38 Local
Exposed Population:	About 6420 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Dec 2016 03:04 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us200082gp	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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