Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 09 Feb 2016 00:47 UTC

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M 4.9 in China on 09 Feb 2016 00:47 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 1080257
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	6.85 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.8546 , 121.7461
Event Date:	09 Feb 2016 00:47 UTC 09 Feb 2016 08:47 Local
Exposed Population:	957619 people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Feb 2016 01:24 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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