Overall Green Earthquake alert Off-shore on 05 Aug 2019 20:47 UTC

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M 4.8 Off-shore on 05 Aug 2019 20:47 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 1185710
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	628.01 Km
Lat/Lon:	-26.2995 , 178.4155
Event Date:	05 Aug 2019 20:47 UTC 06 Aug 2019 08:47 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	05 Aug 2019 21:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000510a	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Massive power cuts as storm warnings hit Cornwall 8/9/2019 7:47:00 PM.

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Turkey to rebuild 250 houses damaged in earthquake 8/9/2019 7:32:00 PM.

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