Overall Green Earthquake alert in El Salvador on 10 Apr 2017 23:53 UTC

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M 4.8 in El Salvador on 10 Apr 2017 23:53 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 1109952
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	13.7692 , -89.1525
Event Date:	10 Apr 2017 23:53 UTC 10 Apr 2017 17:53 Local
Exposed Population:	6030000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Apr 2017 00:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Guatemala= 5.5; Honduras= 5.2; El Salvador= 4.6

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
us10008ge2	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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