Overall Green Earthquake alert in El Salvador on 02 Feb 2016 13:32 UTC

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M 4.6 in El Salvador on 02 Feb 2016 13:32 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 1079855
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	12.9026 , -89.7994
Event Date:	02 Feb 2016 13:32 UTC 02 Feb 2016 07:32 Local
Exposed Population:	785257 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2016 15:42 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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