Overall Green Earthquake alert in Australia on 07 Oct 2021 20:13 UTC

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M 6.1 in Australia on 07 Oct 2021 20:13 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 1289045
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-58.7844 , 158.4491
Event Date:	07 Oct 2021 20:13 UTC 08 Oct 2021 07:13 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	18 Oct 2021 16:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Australia)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000fssl	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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