Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nicaragua on 14 Feb 2016 16:33 UTC

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M 4.6 in Nicaragua on 14 Feb 2016 16:33 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 1080637
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	12.089 , -88.1427
Event Date:	14 Feb 2016 16:33 UTC 14 Feb 2016 10:33 Local
Exposed Population:	About 172 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Feb 2016 20:12 UTC

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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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