Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 27 Dec 2016 00:17 UTC

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M 4.9 in China on 27 Dec 2016 00:17 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 1101879
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	29.492 , 105.7638
Event Date:	27 Dec 2016 00:17 UTC 27 Dec 2016 08:17 Local
Exposed Population:	19701294 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Dec 2016 00:43 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007myh	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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