Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 15 Feb 2016 05:22 UTC

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M 4.5 in China on 15 Feb 2016 05:22 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 1080644
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10.72 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.0244 , 121.0261
Event Date:	15 Feb 2016 05:22 UTC 15 Feb 2016 13:22 Local
Exposed Population:	7109355 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Feb 2016 05:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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