Overall Green Earthquake alert in Fiji on 23 Jul 2013 08:12 UTC

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M 4.6 in Fiji on 23 Jul 2013 08:12 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 1000618
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	556.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-17.6986 , -178.7395
Event Date:	23 Jul 2013 08:12 UTC 23 Jul 2013 20:12 Local
Exposed Population:	About 9134 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Jul 2013 10:32 UTC

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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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