Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 21 May 2017 07:10 UTC

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M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 21 May 2017 07:10 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 1113504
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	83.23 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.3891 , 169.3974
Event Date:	21 May 2017 07:10 UTC 21 May 2017 18:10 Local
Exposed Population:	About 22000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 May 2017 07:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.1 (Vanuatu)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us10008tzy	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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