Overall Green Earthquake alert in Australia on 19 Jun 2013 15:42 UTC

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M 4.7 in Australia on 19 Jun 2013 15:42 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 1000236
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	12.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-52.2018 , 161.2643
Event Date:	19 Jun 2013 15:42 UTC 20 Jun 2013 02:42 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Jun 2013 18:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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