Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 20 Jan 2016 17:13 UTC

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M 5.9 in China on 20 Jan 2016 17:13 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 1078937
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.7195 , 101.5844
Event Date:	20 Jan 2016 17:13 UTC 21 Jan 2016 01:13 Local
Exposed Population:	2610000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Jan 2016 17:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.7		0.7
	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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